Kenyans were on Tuesday taken aback by another incident after one Tebby Wambuku, a friend to Felista Njoroge was found with 102 million Kenya shillings in her bank account.
As a result, the anti-corruption court seating in Nairobi ordered that the Equity bank account belonging to Tebby Wambuku be frozen in a bid to unravel the source of those funds.
According to the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), they believe that Tebby Wambuku Kago might have gotten the money through illegal processes.
Besides, the judge ordered that the CFC bank account with 5 million belonging to her friend Felista Njoroge be also frozen pending investigations.
The court through Justice Esther Maina herd that Tebby Wambuku Kago received 102.8 million Kenya shillings on August 10th 2021 and another 37 million in early September this year.
However, the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) only recovered 102.8 million Kenya shillings in her equity bank and not the initial 139.8 million which was sent to it.
According to Standard, the money was wired into Tebby wambuku Kago’s account by Felista Njoroge’s Belgian boyfriend, Marc De Mesel, a cryptocurrency expert.
The Standard added that Unlike Felista, who was introduced in court as a 21-year-old student of Nairobi Technical Training Institute (NTTI), Kago’s age or occupation wasn’t given. The only hint at her occupation was “self-employed businesswoman” as per court documents.
This comes barely a month after Felista, who is a student at Nairobi Technical Training Institute, left detectives puzzled after the huge sum of money was discovered in her bank account.
The mystery of the large sum led detectives on Felesta’s tracks. It was established that she is the sole signatory and beneficial owner of the Co-operative bank account in question.
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 November 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, Felista’s defense informed Assets Recovery Agency that their client had traveled out of the country.
“We would like to inform you that our client, Felesta, is currently not in Kenya and in fact left the country on October 2nd, 2021. We do not have information on when our client will be coming back to Kenya,” the letter from Felesta’s defense read.
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