Nashon Otieno Angudha, a main suspect in a series of frauds impacting local and foreign gold merchants, was arraigned today at Milimani Law Courts after being arrested Tuesday evening for receiving Sh35 million from a businessman in a fake gold scam.
In the fraudulent scheme, which took place on various occasions between July 13 and October 18, 2023, the 28-year-old is accused of defrauding the victim of millions of dollars by luring him into a purchase and export agreement of 100kg of gold to Dubai, the sum being transportation and insurance expenses.
After parting with the money, which was paid in US dollars ($250,000), nine gold bars delivered to the victim as collateral were tested at the Ministry of Mining.
Nashon then holed up leaving the businessman devastated and poorer, thereby seeking the intervention of law enforcers.
Acting on intelligence, Operation Support Unit (OSU) detectives carried out a stealth operation at Crystal Spring Apartments in Lavington, Nairobi, apprehending the suspect in his KDM 523Q Toyota Prado.
Nashon was arraigned today in Court No. 5 on charges of conspiracy to conduct a felony and obtaining money under false pretenses.
He pleaded not guilty to both allegations and was remanded until Friday, April 4, 2024, when a bond determination will be made.
The prosecution objected to his release on bond based on Nashon's criminal record, claiming that he is implicated in a robbery with violence case at Kibera Court No. 5 for jointly robbing a foreign couple over USD 90,000 when they went out of the country.
In the October 28, 2023 case, Nashon Otieno, Jack Ouma Okwiri, and Felix Ochieng' Nyongesa lured an Australian man and his Ugandan wife to an office in the Runda suburbs before turning on them.
The guy was beaten and the woman sexually raped before the group looted and abandoned them at Rehema House in Nairobi's central business district.
Following a days-long manhunt, the three were apprehended at the Social House Nairobi Hotel in the Lavington area and charged with robbery with violence in Kibera Law Courts on November 9, 2023.
They were released on a Sh1M bond with an alternative of Sh300,000 cash bail.