KENYA : Police have arraigned a suspect accused of hacking KCB Bank security code and effecting unlawful electronic money transfer.

Alex Kimaiyo Kiprono was charged with fraudulently infringing security measures of KCB bank on January 10, 2024, by accessing a joint account of Samuel Kimuchu Gichuru and Bilha Wanjiku Gichuru and effecting illegal money transfer from the said account.

He was also charged with computer fraud contrary to the Law.

The prosecution alleged that Alex Kimaiyo on January 10, 2024, jointly with others yet to be arrested fraudulently obtained an economic benefit of Ksh 1,822,683 through unauthorized access to a computer system by effecting electronic money transfers from the joint account.

Appearing before Magistrate Benmark Ekhubi, the suspect denied the charges and was released on Ksh 1m bond with an alternative cash bail of Ksh 650,000.

Still in Courts.

A former principal secretary in the Ministry of Internal Security has been arrested and charged with fraudulent acquisition of a parcel land located along Mombasa Road, valued at Sh350 million.

In a statement,, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) disclosed that the former PS, Dave Munya Mwangi, was arrested following investigations by the DCI land fraud investigators after a complaint was lodged.

“Former PS in the Ministry of Internal Security Dave Munya Mwangi has been charged for the fraudulent acquisition of a parcel land located along Mombasa Road, after forging a title deed with the help of a rogue official at the Ministry of Lands,” DCI remarked.

The directorate intimated that Mwangi and two other suspects, who are at large, forged documents of the parcel of land into names of companies owned by Mwangi.

They then used the documents to lease the land to a Chinese company for Ksh12 million.

“In the case, the accused had jointly with two others—Sammy Louis Karanja and Moses Ojuka (former employee at the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning)—forged documents of a 1.591 ha parcel of land into the names of companies owned by Mwangi Munya, before leasing the same to a Chinese company for Sh12 million,” DCI explained.

Mwangi, who is the director of Olbolsat Farm Limited, was arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts and charged on three accounts: conspiracy to defraud, uttering a false document and forgery of a title.

Similar charges were filed against his two accomplices, who remain at large.

Mwangi pleaded not guilty to the charges and was granted a bond of Ksh20 million or an alternative cash bail of Ksh5 million.