The Assistant Branch Operations Manager, NCBA Bank, Kisii Branch has been detained at Kileleshwa Police Station after he was arrested for allegedly stealing millions of money from a Catholic Church Account domiciled at the Bank.
Philip Kiprono Rotich, Assistant Operations Manager NCBA Bank was arraigned at Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi where the DCI, Banking Fraud Unit sought an order to detain him for 10 days to complete investigations and prefer charges.
He is being investigated for various offences, including conspiracy to commit felony, forgery, uttering false document, stealing and possession of proceeds of Crime as reported by NCBA Bank of Kenya.
According to the Bank, Philip Kiprono Rotich using his position in the bank orchestrated a fraud by using advantage bestowed to him by the Bank’s clients and a fraud that led to the loss of over Ksh 47 million.
Preliminary Investigations proved that Philip Kiprono Rotich, would receive instructions from clients in the bank to transfer funds internally but instead he would divert the funds and credit the funds into different Bank accounts of his cohorts and at the end tail the funds would return to him.
The suspect will be detained at Kileleshwa Police Station until Wednesday when the Court will rule on his detention application.
In Other News, the DPP has admitted that his office had no evidence to prosecute former Mungiki leader, Maina Njenga.
In an application filed before Nakuru court, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) sought to withdraw the case saying the weak evidence gathered by the police during their investigation cannot allow the case to crawl before any Court of law.
Nakuru court Principal Magistrate Kipkurui Kibellion in his ruling on Monday afternoon pointed out that the prosecution admitted they had no evidence to sustain the case.
The prosecution argued that the case be withdrawn on grounds that 20 witnesses who were lined up to testify were not willing to testify in court due to their relations with Maina Njenga.
The court further directed that the accused persons; Maina Njenga and 11 co-accused persons be discharged, their bonds refunded, and their phones returned.
Njenga and the co-accused persons were facing counts relating to membership in the outlawed criminal gang Mungiki and engaging in organized crime.
