By DCI
Abdinoor Sharmake Mohamed, the accused in a case of Conspiracy to Defraud and Giving False Information to a Person Employed in Public Office that involved a USD 394,209 fraudulent scheme has been charged at Makadara Law Courts.
The investigation of the case implicating him and three accomplices, Muna Dahir Dalmar, Salma Osman Gureye and Shamis Warsame Osman (the three at large), commenced in 2023, when the suspects reported at Pangani Police Station to have been defrauded the said amount by a businessman, who would later be vindicated by investigations as the victim of a fraud cartel.
In their fabricated allegations, the suspects claimed to have handed over USD 394,209 in cash to the businessman in 2022, money that constituted an investment in his company, African Express Cargo, and intended for a joint cargo business venture in Nairobi. They further alleged that upon receiving the funds, he had become evasive, failed to commence operations, and subsequently fled to a neighboring country. To substantiate their claims, the “complainants” produced an Acknowledgement of Debt dated 2nd May 2023, ostensibly executed by the businessman in the presence of an advocate.
Detectives from Starehe took over the investigation, profiled the alleged suspect before finally cornering him at JKIA in March, 2025. But on his arrest, a twist of events unfolded. Contrary to the reported complaints, the man claimed to have been abducted by individuals who posed as police officers, illegally detained, seizure of his passport and compulsion under duress to execute the debt agreement. He further alleged to have been forced to pay USD 17,000 to secure his release and passport, and a further USD 30,000 under threat of deportation.
The new information prompted a painstaking investigation, which disproved the earlier reported case. It emerged that the report at Pangani Police Station was fabricated by the daring suspects to boost their fraudulence art. Detectives unearthed that the victim was not in the country on the dates said to have committed the fraud offence, and neither were the three suspects who are still at large. Further, there was no record of either party’s presence at the Nairobi hotel where the transactions were reported to have taken place.
The case file was forwarded to the ODPP, who found the reported case to constitute a deliberate provision of false information to public officers, executed with the specific intent to coerce, extort, and pervert the course of justice.
Consequently, Abdinoor Sharmake Mohamed was hunted down, arrested and charged vide MCCR No E1091/2026 in respect of the aforementioned offences, but his three counterparts holed up. They are being sought.
