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Former Garsen MP Danson Mungatana was arrested on August 11 by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations based in Kilimani, Nairobi. The former MP was arrested alongside Collins Paul Waweru and are facing charges for obtaining money by false pretences, forgery and making of a false document. The DCI says Mungatana and Waweru were arrested after a victim presented fake tender documents to a military police unit. “The two with others who are still at large were arrested after their victim presented to a security agency tender documents purported to have originated from them but were found to be fake after scrutiny,” said the DCI.
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According to a police report, the victim said a person introduced himself as a Senior Military Police Unit at the Department of Defence (DOD) in charge of the tenders. The victim says the ‘officer’ asked for a downpayment of Sh1,000,000 in order to secure a Sh70 million cereals and building tenders.
“Before presenting the fake tender documents, the victim had allegedly paid Sh 1,000,000 so as to be assisted to win a cereals and building tenders and was to pay another Sh 1,000,000 before detectives pounced on the two at a hotel in the CBD,” added the DCI.
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The detectives have launched further investigations to establish the whereabouts of the other two.
