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Kelvin "Sonko" Otieno Onyango

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Inside Nairobi’s Fake Gold Network: How Serial Scammers Built a Multi-Million Shilling Empire Preying on Unsuspecting Foreigners

They arrive in Nairobi with dreams of quick riches from Africa’s mineral wealth. They leave with empty bank accounts, shattered trust, and stories that sound too outrageous to be true. Yet the pattern repeats with chilling precision. Upscale offices in Kilimani, Westlands or Kitisuru. Forged documents stamped with official-looking seals. Staged “smelting demonstrations” using ordinary […]

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Wash Wash Paradise: When Lawyers Become Part of The Criminal Enterprise

How Kenya’s legal practitioners have become key enablers in transnational gold fraud schemes targeting foreign investors In the plush offices of Kilimani’s China Wu Yi Plaza, where legitimate businesses operate alongside shadowy enterprises, a disturbing trend has emerged in Kenya’s “wash wash” economy – the systematic recruitment of lawyers as key facilitators in elaborate gold […]

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Wash Wash: Kelvin “Sonko” Otieno Charged In Sh151M Fraud

Flamboyant serial fraudster Kelvin “Sonko” Otieno Onyango was today charged with making a document without authority, a grave offense under Section 357(a) of the Kenyan Penal Code. According to documents from the Milimani Law Courts, Sonko stands accused of fabricating a document (Mineral dealer’s [trading] licence registration No. MDL/T DTL/2024/044 for Cargocare freight forwarders) and […]

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