Contraversial businessman David Mapili aka Mapili David Mapili is among three people arrested in connection to Sh 88.8M Fraud in Nairobi Kenya.
He was arrested alongside George Ochieng’ Onyango, Mercy Wahiga Wanjiku, and Jackson Kiharo Mwondi for defrauding a Nairobi businessman of millions of shillings in a scheme involving the award of fake government tenders the facts they knew to be false.
The four were on Monday arraigned at a Kiambu Court where they were charged with the offence.
According to the court papers, the accused persons falsely obtained Sh88.8 million from businessman Idris Ahmed Buro.
The DCI believes that the accused person, David Mapili, and his accomplice are part of a cartel that operates within government offices and uses fake letters and Local Purchase Orders to award inexistent tenders to victims.
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It is alleged that the four had given Buro three fake tenders amounting to Sh230 million. One of the tenders required him to deliver Panolin Hydraulic Lubricant to the government printer for Sh74.5 million.
Controversial businessman David Mapili aka Mapili David Mapili
Also in the other two contracts, the fraudsters asked him to supply 797 laptops to the ICT ministry for Sh125.9 million and software for Sh28.7 million.
Buro said one of the suspects posed as the acting head of procurement at the Ministry of ICT during the award of the tender. “I would even meet him at the ministry’s offices on either the 9th or 10th floor,” he said.
The businessman says he imported the computers from China and delivered them to the ICT ministry, but was asked to take them to a store in Hurlingham.
Police say they have impounded expensive cars believed to have been acquired using the money received from Buro. The vehicles include a Ford Ranger double cabin and a brand-new V8 Land Cruiser.
