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NCBA Bank Manager Arrested For Stealing Sh47M Sadaka From Customer’s Account
Assistant Branch Operations Manager Phillip Kiprono Rotich has been detained at Kileleshwa Police Station for allegedly stealing millions of money from a Catholic Church Account domiciled at the Bank.
A manager at NCBA bank Kisii branch was on Monday detained in police custody after police asked court for time to investigate allegations of theft of over Sh 47 M from a Catholic Church account.
Assistant Branch Operations Manager Phillip Kiprono Rotich has been detained at Kileleshwa Police Station for allegedly stealing millions of money from a Catholic Church Account domiciled at the Bank.
He was arraigned at Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi where the DCI, Banking Fraud Unit sought an order to detain him for 10 days to complete investigations and prefer charges.
The court heard that he is being investigated for various offences, including conspiracy to commit felony, forgery, uttering false document, stealing and possession of proceeds of Crime as reported by NCBA Bank of Kenya.
According to the Bank, Rotich used his position in the bank orchestrated a fraud by using advantage bestowed to him by the Bank’s clients and a fraud that led to the loss of over Ksh 47 million.
Police claim that Preliminary Investigations proved that Philip Kiprono Rotich, would receive instructions from clients in the bank to transfer funds internally but instead he would divert the funds and credit the funds into different Bank accounts of his cohorts and at the end tail the funds would return to him.
Rotich will been detained at Kileleshwa Police Station until Wednesday when the Court will rule on his detention application.
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