Belgian national Merc De Mesel who gave his Kenyan girlfriend Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge Ksh 102 million is accusing Kenyan authorities of harassing them following invasion in their home.
In a video he shared on social media, Mesel said police have been harassing them since October when large sum of money was discovered in his girlfriend’s account.
The Belgian national said that police raided their home in October, arrested them and took them to DCI headquarters for questions.
Mesel lamented that detectives accused him of funding terrorism in the country and also being involved in money laundering.
“It has been crazy here in Africa, something very bad happened. Was chilling in my house in my pajamas and suddenly a home invasion by four cops of CID. Invading my house arresting me, taking me with them and also my girlfriend. And a whole day of questioning. accused of money laundering and even terrorist financing,” said Mesel.
According to him, he gave his Kenyan girlfriend the Ksh102 million as a gift after she agreed to have a baby with him, and that was not a reason to raise eyebrows.
Mesel said that after he had sent the money to his girlfriend, he received an alert that the account had been blocked for a span of 10 days as the officers were investigating the huge transactions.
According to him, police officers did not have any right to mistreat them and what they did was bad.
On November 19th, detectives from the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) moved to court and demanded that the bank account be frozen.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the funds held in the account in the name of the respondent, are illicit funds in which the respondent is involved in a money-laundering scheme designed to conceal and disguise the nature, source location and movement of the funds,” ARA said in court documents.
The large sum was deposited in 4 transactions, in a span of just 3 days (August 4th to August 6th, 2021). The bank account was brand new, having just been opened just days before the huge transactions.
On August 4th, a sum of Ksh25,803,756 was deposited in Felesta’s Co-operative bank account. On August 5th, Ksh26,028,156 and Ksh25,242,756 were deposited in two separate transactions. On August 6th, a further Ksh25,579,356 was deposited.
Assets Recovery Agency summoned Felesta on October 18th to explain the suspicious transactions, but she failed to show up.
The 21-year-old sent her lawyers who said that the summons were vague, and asked detectives to furnish them with proper particulars of the alleged offence she had committed.
Two days later, Felesta’s defense informed Assets Recovery Agency that their client had traveled out of the country.
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