How the entrapment of a blogger in 2020 buried explosive money laundering allegations against Victoria Commercial Bank CEO Dr. Yogesh Pattni allegations that resurfaced with even greater force in 2023 when the DCI arrested him over the Mumias Sugar fraud and how both investigations were made to disappear. The story behind the silence, the method behind the impunity, and the questions that refuse to die.
How money laundering and economic crime allegations against Victoria Commercial Bank CEO Dr. Yogesh Pattni erupted with the force of a national scandal in August 2023 — then went cold. A trail of buried files, a sugar cartel’s hidden empire, political funding networks, compromised insolvency proceedings, and the recurring Kenyan phenomenon of powerful men watching their cases simply vanish.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers from the banking fraud unit have arrested Yogesh Pattni the CEO of Victoria Commercial Bank over what multiple sources attribute to money laundering allegations. The arrest of Pattni comes just a day after Sugar Baron Jaswant Rai was abducted and released by unknown men in the Kilimani area […]
Blogger Cyprian Nyakundi has locked horns with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji over an alleged extortion case involving Victoria Commercial Bank. Justice Antony Mrima had on March 11 declared unconstitutional the way the evidence in the matter was obtained. “The DPP ought to have acted in compliance with the superior court decision […]
Yesterday at around noon, DCI detectives nabbed blogger Cyprian Nyakundi in the company of Emmanuel Ong’era on an allegation that the duo had received a Sh1 Million bribe to pull down alleged defamatory articles on the bloggers’ site— cnyakundi.com. @DCI_Kenya Detectives based at Gigiri have today afternoon arrested two suspects namely Cyprian Andama Nyakundi and […]
According to a whistleblower site cnyakundi.com, a blog that has been exposing and following closely the case of Victoria Commercial Bank owner Yogesh Pattni who, according to the chief editor of the site, has been accused of alleged massive fraud and scam deals and in this case study, money laundering in the Republic of Kenya. […]
