BY SAM ALFAN.
The operations manager of Equity Bank in Moyale and Wells security company officer will be detained for 10 days to allow police complete investigations over disappearance of 42 million from the lender.
A Nairobi court ordered Roba Diba Boru and Langat Kipngetich Nelson for ten days after officers attached to the Special Crimes Prevention Unit filed an application seeking to detain the two for 21 days.
The court, however, declined the request to keep them in custody for three weeks considering they had been arrested by officers from Moyale who released them but later rearrested.
They were escorted to the DCI headquarters in Nairobi upon fresh evidence indicating that they were linked to the disappearance of Sh42 million from Equity Bank, Moyale branch.
The police told the court the investigation have commenced to trace the entire group of persons involved and recovery of the Sh42 million. The court heard that there was compelling reasons to detain the accused in custody.
In their affidavit, the officer said upon arrival at the ODDA- Airstrip Moyale, it is alleged that three men armed persons emerged and moved the consignment containing the money in question while using motorbikes ordering all of them to lie down.
Preliminary investigations reveal that the two were aware of the regulations and security standards to be governed to have directed the pilot not to land at the ODDA-Airstrip Moyale at the material time noting that no proper security measures had been put in place.
Forensic investigation and analysis is ongoing to enable the DCI officers to trace where the money is and connect all the persons involved and if the suspects be released they will interfere with investigations especially the tracing of the money.
“There is a high likelihood of the Roba Diba Boru and Langat Kipngetich Nelson interfering and intimidating the key probable witnesses if released before we secure all the evidence and the consequences arising thereafter will be so severe as it will be too late to salvage the situation and therefore justifiable to subject them to continued detention,” the affidavit reads.
