Puzzle As Sh102 million found in student’s bank account
The Assets Recovery Agency is going after a college student with over Sh100 million in her bank account that is suspected to be proceeds of crime and money laundering.
The agency has moved to court seeking orders to freeze the account of Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge that has Sh102,654,024 at the Co-operative Bank of Kenya.
Felesta, 21, and a Kenyan citizen, is a student at Nairobi Technical Training Institute.
Detectives established she is the sole signatory and beneficial owner of the bank account under investigation.
The funds were deposited to her account in four split transactions in a span of three days from August 4 to August 6, 2021.
Felesta says the cash was deposited to her account by her boyfriend De Mesel Marc, a Belgian, as gift.
On August 4, he depos...