GHash mining scam: Four suspects arrested as 1,336 SIM cards recovered
One of the suspects with the stash of SIM cards recovered during the police operation. PHOTO | COURTESY | DCI
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Four suspects were on Friday apprehended in
Kahawa area for allegedly being involved in the GHash mining scam.
The four; Otieno Dismas Ongoro, Robin Mwika,
Wycliff Otieno Olal, and Michael Otieno Kaumba, were taken into custody at the
Muthaiga and Pangani police stations.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal
Investigations (DCI) who conducted the operation recovered 1,336 SIM cards from
various telco service providers as follows; Safaricom (1,235), Airtel (80), and
Telkom (21).
A tablet, laptop, and eight mobile phones
were also found upon search of the suspects’ premises.
The four are set to be arraigned in court on
Monday as detectives seek to apprehend more suspects in the scam.
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