Detectives are secretly looking for fraudster Joseph Lendrix Waswa as gold fraud cases soar. Detectives in Nairobi have launched the manhunt for businessman cum Joseph Lendrix Waswa even as multiple cases of gold fraud continue to soar.
Mr Waswa, who has been consistently linked to the Sh1 billion gold scam in previous days, is reportedly hiding at an undisclosed location even as the police continue their manhunt.
On Thursday, Mr Waswa avoided an arrest by a whisker. This comes after Waswa mysteriously avoided arrest by a whisker.
Reports from the detectives indicate that the gold fraudster, who was once a controversial businessman, now stays at Garden Estate, Nairobi. He defrauded a Tunisian national, and the foreigner is now crying out for justice.
He does not do this work alone, and he has a group of fraudsters who usually help him in his fraud-addicted business.
For instance, the DCI has arrested some new suspects linked to fraud.
Those arrested are small fish in the key gold fraud. The linked ring leaders are Mr Waswa and Samuel Maina of Melpa Limited.
According to the police, Waswa and Maina are believed to be armed and dangerous, and their freedom could jeopardise investigations.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the police are at liberty to investigate or charge the applicant for any criminal conduct. However, they shall not arrest or detain him given orders or until further orders of the court,” said the orders issued by Justice Diana Kavedza.
According to the charge sheet read in court, the charges against Waswa and the team are ready, and once arrested, they will be arraigned in court.
They are also charged with possessing 634,178 fake US dollars (Sh93 million) contrary to the law.
“Let it be known that on September 7, 2023, at Villa Mawe in Garded Estate, jointly with others not before the court, you were found with USD 634,178 in denominations of 100, which you knew were fake,” read the charge sheet in parts.
Waswa had already been charged with other charges related to gold fraud.
Just for the record, Waswa, in 2014 and 2015, was arrested for allegedly killing Mitch Kibiti, son of (former) Bungoma County Education Chief Officer David Kibiti, after a disagreement at his Etonia Club in Kimilili.