Two female suspects are set to be arraigned at Kiambu Law Courts for stealing over Sh15.6 million from their employer within 18 months.
Judy Muringe Mugo, 41, was accused of duping Goshens Real Estate tenants into disregarding the paybill and bank account provided on their lease agreement forms while remitting monthly rent.
She declared the company paybill and bank account "no longer functional" before directing that payments be channeled to a mobile phone and number issued to her for marketing purposes.
After receiving the hundreds of thousands in rent, water bills, and other payable services through the office line, the 41-year-old would transfer the money to her two personal phone numbers and transact through mobile banking to her two accounts held at Family Bank.
To cover her trail and ensure management did not notice any irregularities, Judy conspired with the receptionist (Catherine Waithera), who manipulated numbers in the company's system to indicate that no tenants had any arrears.
The receptionist (Catherine) had manipulated figures in the system by inserting nonexistent Mpesa codes, as Judy produced and issued fake receipts to the tenants.
For doing this, the 26-year-old partner in crime would receive her unfair share of the loot.
The detectives commenced investigations by recording statements of all the affected tenants and seeking orders from a Kiambu court to investigate the concerned banks and mobile money transactions.
The investigation confirmed that Judy channeled Sh750,000 to AUTOCAD Motors bank account, which AUTOCAD confirmed to have been payment for a Toyota Harrier Reg. No. KBH 252S bought from their yard.
The investigators sought a search warrant for the suspect's home where the Toyota Harrier was found parked and filed a miscellaneous application to impound and detain the vehicle as a proceed of crime.
The audit report in the well-orchestrated scheme revealed that the company lost a whooping Sh15,633,147.