Assets Recovery Agency Blocking Student From Her Ksh102,654,024.....

A 21-year-old university student who was caught with Ksh102 million was hard-pressed to explain the source of the money after the government flagged her account.

The Nairobi Technical Training Institute student revealed that her Belgian boyfriend gifted her the Ksh102,654,024. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

However, the explanation did not convince the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), which in turn moved to court seeking orders to freeze the account until investigations are carried out conclusively.

ARA told the court that the money was wired suspiciously and that there was a need to establish whether the funds were proceeds of unlawful activities.

The agency told the court that the account was opened on August 2, 2021, and the money was wired two days later.

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Over Ksh 37 billion fake currency seized

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the funds held in the account in the name of the respondent, are illicit funds in which the respondent is involved in a money-laundering scheme designed to conceal and disguise the nature, source location and movement of the funds,” the ARA stated in court documents.

“Unless this honourable court grants the orders sought, the respondent will continue to enjoy the benefits derived from proceeds of crime.”

According to the agency, preliminary investigations showed that the account held no cash before the suspicious transactions were made.

The first deposit of Ksh25,803,756 was made on August 4, 2021.
A second deposit of Ksh25,803,756 was made on August 5 with the third and fourth deposits coming in on August 6
but as separate transactions of Ksh25,242,756 and Ksh25,579,356.

When the account was flagged, the ARA issued a summon to the student on October 18, 2021, but her lawyers wrote back a day later stating that the summon was vague and had no legal grounds.

“In the letter, the legal representative making reference to the summons dated 18 October 2021 sought for better and proper particulars of the alleged offense with regards to what information you wish to acquire from our client,” the ARA stated in court documents.

“It further stated, the summons issued by yourself are vague in nature as we would like a further explanation so as to advise her on what documentation she needs to bring with her," the agency continued.

ARA further told the court that the student’s lawyers later informed the agency that [B]she had left the country in October [/B]but could not inform when she would jet back.

Student billionaire waaah

very stupid people, why did they think 25million deposits in 4 days would not raise eyebrows. na labda acct before that ilikua na mia mbili

na 100m?

huyo beligian alideposit kwa senye na kwa bank account pia

[SIZE=7][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Githeri media at it again.
the woman is a former hooker that met a white man that is a crypto investor that made it big trading crypto.
the jigger woman got the money as a gift.
it’s unfortunate that the dumb white man doesn’t know the jigger woman will soon have him tied up and lifeless in a sceptic tank[/SIZE]

Pesa ni yake watu waache wivu…

ARA waache utiaji , KRA ichukie yao na waacha kijana na pesa yake

Wameshikia mtu almost $1M…I would take this issue very personally with those goofs at ARA

Politicians wanakula kama shiett na student akikafunga wanaanza kumsumbua.

Why not transfer the same in crypto… Just buy 2 BTC… Transfer to the ladies wallet… Have her sell as she deposits the cash in her account…

I am sure that if the money was clean, the money will be made available to her again…

ukisikia belgian banae…

wacha tu

leta hekaya my fren…

they are a fire to be basked from afar

Huyo student ni conduit tu. Mwenye pesa yuko

Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge will not access her Co-operative Bank account for the next 90 days.
The Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) has successfully obtained orders to have a bank account belonging to a Nairobi student frozen over suspicious deposits.
This means the 21-year-student will not use part of KSh 102.6 million she received from her foreign billionaire lover.
“An order is hereby issued prohibiting the respondent (Felesta ), her employees, agents, servants or any other persons acting on their behalf from transacting, withdrawing, transferring, and, or dealing in any manner in respect of any profits or benefits derived or accrued from the funds,” it directed.

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BitCoin billionaire Merc De Mesel reportedly sent KSh 102 million to his 21-year-old
Kenyan girlfriend Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge as a gift, something that alerted local authorities.
Mesel has revealed that detectives raided their home following the generous gift.
“We were arrested by detectives and questioned for the whole day.
We were accused of money laundering and terrorist financing.
I got an alert from the local authorities that the account was blocked for 10 days.
She is my girlfriend and we are having children together. She is pregnant. That was so bad,” Mesel said.

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Huddah Monroe said her boyfriend gave her a KSh 7.5 million first car while defending Felesta Njoroge, a student with over KSh 100 million.
“Some men out there give their girlfriends lots of money. You are used to Kenyan sponsors. Do they even give pocket money?” Huddah wondered.

You may have bumped into the photos of Belgian national Merc De Mesel with different Kenyan women.

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He is the wealthy foreigner who gifted Kenyan lover KSh 102.6 million.

Twitter and Facebook DCI unearthed some of the past posts of the foreigner which shows he often went out with different Kenyan women.
In one of his posts, he said he was already loving Kenyan women and in another, he said he would dump his lover after their night of romance.
Either way, Mesel, who was not afraid of sharing his love experiences with Kenyan ladies proved he loved an adventure in the dating world.

In one of his 2019 posts, Mesel narrated how he was loving black girls and would no longer do white ladies anymore. o_O:rolleyes::rolleyes:

He continued to share his adventure with women saying he had approached 50, and got 30.

“I did 10 dates but either I don’t want them or they do not want me. Frustrating but not giving up brothers, not giving up,” he said.

In April 2019, the wealthy investor also shared a rather unsavoury post about how he was planning to dump his lover after having intimate relations with her. It was not clear whether he was talking about Felesta.

Read more: https://www.tuko.co.ke/kenya/434314-kenyans-unearth-past-tweets-belgian-man-behind-ksh102m-boasting-wooing-kenyan-women/?fbclid=IwAR3EwH5Nf888Ku1c4NC1iUjNGshXEurLm7x1eIg1cR9dfDmZTY-D4JvE-sw

The Idiots now findout they have no valid reason to hold this woman’s money… :D:D:D

[SIZE=7]Govt Agency Issues Conditions Before Releasing Millions[/SIZE]
By BRIAN KIMANI on 13 December 2021

The Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) has given an ultimatum to a 21-year-old university student whose bank account was frozen.
Felista Nyamathira Njoroge had Ksh102 million in her account when the Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) moved to court seeking orders to freeze the account until investigations are carried out to establish the source of the money. However, the State agency has thrown a spanner in the works, noting that for the account to be unfrozen, Njoroge must demonstrate how she has suffered or would suffer hardship if the money remained held.

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Cryptocurrency investor Merc De Mesel in Europe in 2017 COURTESY MERC DE MESEL TWITTER

ARA, through an application, affirmed that the hardship would have to outweigh the risk of releasing the funds to her.

“The funds in issue are presumed to be proceeds of crime and the applicant is not entitled to utilize the same pending the filing and determination of forfeiture application,” read part of the application.

Through her lawyer, Thomas Maosa, Nyamathira had initially filed a petition seeking to have the account unfrozen to allow her access to the cash.
In the application, Njoroge reiterated that she was not engaged in any financial misconduct and she had the capacity to engage in businesses.
She had accused the agency of maligning her name and basing their argument on speculation that her huge sums were linked to graft and money laundering.

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Cryptocurrency investor Merc De Mesel and 21-year-old girlfriend Felista Njoroge

"I am lawfully entitled to my funds held at my bank account since the agency obtained the sweeping orders freezing the account without asking me where I received the funds from.”
“I am a law-abiding person who genuinely acquired the money through businesses and relationships,” Njoroge stated.
Documents in court indicated that the student’s boyfriend, Cryptocurrency investor Merc De Mesel, had wired Ksh102,654,024 to Njoroge’s account on August 4, 2021. The funds raised concern from ARA, which alleged that the funds were acquired in unlawful ways.

This led to the High Court ordering the account to be frozen to allow the ARA to establish the source of the money.
“An order is hereby issued prohibiting the respondent, her employees, agents, servants, or any other persons acting on their behalf from transacting, withdrawing, transferring, and, or dealing in any manner in respect of any profits or benefits derived or accrued from the funds,” the judge directed.

[SIZE=7]Another Mysterious Ksh 102M Found in Account of University Girl’s Friend[/SIZE]
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Cryptocurrency investor Merc De Mesel and 21-year-old girlfriend Felista Njoroge pose for a photo.
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ARA informed the court that on diverse dates, Tebby received Ksh102.8 million and Ksh37 million between August 10, 2021, and early November 2021.
However, upon accessing Tebby’s bank account, ARA learned that the Ksh37 million had disappeared and could not be traced, thus seeking for the freezing of the remaining amount, a request that the court agreed to.

“That preservation orders are hereby issued prohibiting the respondents (Wambuku and Nyamathira) and or their representatives, employees, agents, servants or any other persons acting on their behalf from transacting, withdrawing, transferring, dealing in any manner whatsoever in respect to the funds and any profits or benefits derived or accrued from held in the three bank account,” the court ordered.
The missing amount is reported to have been distributed to friends and relatives of the suspects, an activity meant to conceal their action from the Central Bank of Kenya.
Records presented to the court indicated that the amount was deposited into the account by Felista’s Belgian boyfriend, Marc De Mesel, a cryptocurrency expert, who had made another deposit of Ksh102 million to Felista in November.
Investigating officer Fredrick Musyoki noted that Tebby opened her bank account in February 2021 as a self-employed businesswoman, but the amount that came in was suspicious as it did not depict a business source.
The court was also told that authorities received intelligence information that there were two women involved in money laundering schemes, where they received money from foreign jurisdictions while they could not substantiate the legitimacy of the source.
“The two women are suspected to be part of a syndicate involved in a complex money-laundering scheme involving themselves and foreign Nationals and their bank accounts are used as a conduit of complex money laundering,” said ARA lawyer.

Felister, who was the first victim of ARA, had her account containing Ksh102.5 million frozen for 90 days, to give the agency adequate time to trace and establish the source of the money.
The court agreed to freeze the account after ARA proved to the court that the funds were proceeds of crime and other economic crimes since Felista failed to cooperate with the investigating officers.
The recovery agency informed the court that the student chose to send her lawyers who failed to pay attention to pertinent issues raised, and failed to honour subsequent summons.
The Belgian who was contacted to explain the purpose of the money sent claimed that he was involved in a romantic relationship with the recipient and the money was meant to facilitate her financial stability in the future.

Felista has since filed an application in court seeking the unfreezing of her accounts, but ARA maintains that it is seeking to compel her to forfeit the money to the government.