Luggage at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI | FILE
NATION MEDIA GROUP
Nine suspects including a police officer
and an employee of an airline involved in fake passport and visa
cartels were arrested Wednesday night at the Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport.
The head of Special Crime Prevention Unit
Noah Katumo said that another employee of the Immigration department
believed to be involved in the racket was being sought after he
disappeared from the airport.
A Kenya Airways employee,
identified as Paul Okoth Alala, was arrested for checking in the
passengers with the knowledge that their documents were fake. The
suspect is based at the Kenya Airways Transfer Desk for connecting
passengers.
Also arrested was a Police Constable
Mustafa Maalim attached to the airport’s Directorate of Criminal
Investigations. The officer was also found to be having the mobile phone
numbers of the suspects arrested plus the suspected financier, Mr
Mohamed Ahmed.
Mr Katumo said that the cartel was
operating from Ngara, at the offices of another suspect who was also
arrested, Peter Nganaga Karanja. Detectives recovered 29 passports and
visas, 39 loose papers, laptops, printers and lamination machine.
The three suspects plus two Ethiopians, two Somalis and two Bangladeshi nationals are to appear in court later in the day
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