Four police officers have been arrested for being in a gang that was arrested for stealing millions from accountant in Utawala, Nairobi.
According to reports by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), four police officers and two civilians are in custody for breaking into an accountant car and stealing Ksh 2.2 Million.
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The thre officers have been identified as a police sergeant, a corporal and a constable from Kasarani Police Station, a police constable from Ruai police station and two civilians were arrested at the Kasarani Police Station public parking yard.
According to the accountant who filed the report of the theft at Mihango Police Station, the money was intended to pay casual workers at the school located in Utawala.
The six are said to have followed the accountant from when he parked his car outside the bank to when he left with the bundles of cash after arriving at the school gate.
Immediately he parked the car and left it outside the school gate, the six collaborated and broke into the car before getting away with the millions. Unlucky to them, they had been captured in the CCTV footage committing the crime.
“Further intelligence led the team to the Kasarani station, where the six were ambushed in a GK vehicle and forced to identify themselves in the presence of the Sub-County Police Commander, his deputy and the Sub-County Criminal Investigations Office.”
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Upon searching the car they were in, the officers from DCI recovered Ksh350,000 and another Ksh123,000 was retrieved from their pockets and arrested immediately. The suspects will be arraigned once the investigations are completed.