The Directorate of Criminal Investigations DCI has revealed more intrigues into the sophisticated life of the slain thug Samuel Mugoh Muvota, who was recently shot dead in broad daylight along Mirema Drive in Nairobi by a lone gunman.
Through a series of revelations on its official Twitter page, the DCI dug deeper into Muvota's controversial crime life.
After revealing how he used expensive-looking women and deployed them as drinks spiking agents at various high-end entertainment spots, the detectives went ahead to lay bare tactics used by the daring Muvota to rob unsuspecting clients of their hard earned money in ATM frauds.
The DCI has unraveled how the high-tech phone scammer used to operate over 300 registered bank accounts, spread out across three leading banks.
The detectives said Muvota was so smart in his dealings that he left no trail of his transactions.
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According to the DCI, the scammer tricked over 100 youths in Embu by posing as a government employee who wanted to help them secure a job at the Lamu port and Mau Mau road construction.
It is then that Muvota asked the youth that they needed to acquire new sim cards and three bank accounts each from the three leading banks that he had identified to facilitate their payments once employed.
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After helping the unsuspecting youth open the said accounts and registering for mobile banking, the scammer is said to have disappeared with the new sim cards promising to get back to them.
"Later he came back and asked them to register for mobile banking and use 1212 as the PIN number before collecting all the SIM cards, which he promised to deliver at the National Treasury from where their salaries would be processed once they went to Lamu. The happy youths complied and as he left, he asked them to ‘Cheza Chini’ lest their appointments were revoked. That was the last time they ever saw the man and none dared to report," read part of the DCI tweets.
Unknown to the youth, Muvota had used their documents to open up bank accounts that he used in his fraudulent transactions amounting to hundreds of thousands of shillings.
It was not until the detectives came pouncing on them that they realized they had been duped and their accounts used for fraudulent transactions. Fortunately, the detectives realized they had been used as a 'crossing bridge' and were later released.
It was reported that the suspect could use the bank accounts to transact over Ksh1 million in a day from men whose drinks had been spiked with "mchele" by his twilight girls in various Nairobi clubs.
"Armed with personal details from the young men and women, Muvota had over 300 bank accounts that he was using for his transactions. In one day, he was making over Sh 1 Million from administering pishori to unsuspecting men" DCI added
At one point, Muvota recruited university students to help him open up more bank accounts from unsuspecting students. It is reported that he could pay up to Sh 5,000 for every bank account that was delivered.
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While robbing unsuspecting clients from various ATM machines by assisting them when the machines stall and secretly swapping their ATM cards, Muvota is said to have impersonated a police inspector.
"Undoubtedly, Muvota was well updated in his trade to the extent that he knew all the ATMs within the city and its environs without a CCVT camera. To avoid detection, he introduced himself as a police inspector based at Kiambu, and the true caller identified him as Inspector Morris-Kiambu. Preliminary investigations indicate that he had fallen out with some of his partners, who fled to a neighbouring country immediately after the murder. Detectives are hot on their trail," added another Tweet from the DCI.
Despite being arrested and arraigned in various courts in Nairobi and Kiambu counties in connection to the fraud, Muvota always bailed himself out and would look for his complainants.
It is reported that he would pay them back their money in full and advise them to disappear and in the process have his case come down crumbling.
From a video captured by a CCTV camera, Muvota was shot six times by a lone gunman who then escaped using a waiting car.
His body was moved to city mortuary even as the detectives reveals more controversies surrounding his crime life.
