Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are looking for a fake Matiang’i who duped a Dubai businessman that he was Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i.
The fake CS had allegedly told the businessman that he would help him have his gold impounded at Jomo Kenya International Airport (JKIA) released.
According to the People Daily, sleuths have launched a manhunt for the impersonator who at one time even inspected a guard of honour in a scheme to make the businessman, Ali Zandi, believe he was dealing with CS Matiang’i.
The trickster has been identified only as Mukiri.
According to officers investigating the matter, Ali Zandi who owns gold-dealing Zlivia company in Dubai was in the country to meet Interior CS Matiang’i over his gold reportedly held at the JKIA.
Dubious businessmen who had been contracted by Zandi to export tonnes of gold from Congo to Dubai via Kenya had convinced him that his consignment had been held at the JKIA by the government.
He was even taken to a warehouse at JKIA where he was shown the ‘gold’.
When he demanded to see the Interior CS, the conmen organized and chauffeured the impersonator to a hotel at Karen in several fuel guzzlers.
Mukiri, aka Matiang’i, held a meeting with the Dubai-based businessman and assured him that he would unlock the stalemate facing his gold shipment. Little did he know that there was no gold in Kenya and all he was being taken through were con tricks.
After months of frustrations, Zandi talked to UAE ruler Sheikh Mohammed, who is his nephew.
The ruler talked to President Uhuru Kenyatta and demanded that his nephew be refunded millions he had been conned.
That is how the crackdown on fake gold cons started.