Fake gold dealer Kelvin Otieno released on Ksh200,000 cash bail

Suspected gold scammer Kelvin Otieno Onyango has been freed on a Ksh200,000 cash bail after he was charged in court for forging mining licences.

Otieno was arrested with forged mineral mining licences, that he uses in defrauding foreign nationals in fake gold deals.

The gold scammer pleaded not guilty to the charges of forgery, when he appeared before magistrate Benmark Enkhubi on Monday February 26, 2024.

This was after detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested Kelvin Otieno Onyango at his office in Kilimani area at China WU-YI Plaza on Friday February 23.

DCI responded after a Chinese national raised a complaint that he was conned in a fake gold deal.

DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road. Photo: courtesy

“Acting on intelligence, OSU detectives raided his office along Galana Rd,and upon search recovered assorted company documents, stamps, seals and forged mining licenses purported to have been issued by the Ministry of Mining.

“The suspect was charged with 10 counts of making a document without authority and Forgery,” DCI noted in a statement.

In the first count, Otieno was charged with intent to defraud, without lawful authority or excuse, as he made a certain document namely Mineral Dealer’s licence registration number MDL/T/DTL/2024/004 for Cargocare Freight Forwarders purporting it to be a genuine document duly issued by the Ministry of Mining a fact he knew to be false.

He was also charged with making two other false mineral licence numbers MDL/T/DTL/2024/0 324 and MDL/T/DTL/2021/0278 for Twinstar Freight Forwarders and Pivot Point Freight Limited respectively.

However, he pleaded with the court to release him on reasonable bail terms as he promised to abide by all conditions set by the court.