POLICE IN ELDORET ARREST SEVEN SUSPECTS OVER FRAUDULENT OVERSEAS JOB RECRUITMENT SCHEMES
Police in Eldoret have arrested seven suspects reportedly involved in scamming people through overseas job recruitment schemes.
Uasin Gishu County police commander Benjamin Mwanthi says the suspects were rounded up at various offices where they had been running their operations in the town.
The police said this is part of the ongoing operations that will see others netted and arraigned in court.
The scams have caused residents in the region to lose a lot of money, with over Sh10 billion reportedly lost to the overseas education and job recruitment fraud deals.
Mwanthi said the arrests came against the backdrop of increased public outcry over the fraudulent deals.
During the operation, officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations identified numerous job seekers who were still in queues at the premises of the fraudster agents.
Mwanthi gave an assurance that they will ensure that all those behind the scams are arrested and arraigned in courts of law. He said the suspects in police cells are awaiting arraignment in court.
The fraudulent agents in these recruitment agencies have inflicted irreparable damage upon the finances of numerous gullible people genuinely searching for international opportunities. While police action is an effort to break the operational ring of the fraudulent recruitment agencies and to somehow mitigate the serious grievances that have befallen the community.
