A Nigerian man who who had attempted to infiltrate a company's e-payment system was charged with offenses of computer forgery and attempted stealing at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi on Friday.
On Thursday evening, detectives at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) arrested the suspect identified as Endurance Obayan as he tried to flee the country.
In a statement on Friday, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said, “When the suspect sensed that his hour of arrest was nigh, Endurance Obayan, was stopped on his tracks as he desperately attempted to board a Nigeria bound flight, to escape from our agents who were hot on his trail.”
The DCI added that the suspect had gained access to the Equatorial Nuts Processing Limited systems based in Nairobi and sent a fake invoice to their client in Australia, demanding payment of Sh35.9 million.
The client was alarmed by the email that further instructed him to channel the money to an account in China. He then contacted Equatorial Nuts to determine whether they had changed their bank details, the DCI stated.
Immediately, the company’s security manager
alerted cyber-crime detectives who launched a man hunt for the suspect.
The sleuths worked with their Serious Crimes Unit counterparts and they managed to nab him as he tried to board a Nigeria-bound flight in an attempt to escape.
The DCI said, "Yesterday afternoon, when the suspect sensed that his hour of arrest was nigh, he hurriedly left his Ruaka apartment headed for the country’s international gateway. He was to catch an Ethiopian airlines flight scheduled for Nigeria, only to be met by mean looking sleuths and immigration officials at the airport, who whisked him to the comfort of our hatchbacks that delivered him at DCI headquarters for questioning.”
The risks instigated by digitization of systems which have often been targeted by tech-savvy fraudsters have led several Kenyans and companies to fall victim to fraud
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