Rwanda National Police Tuesday arrested Joyce Nguma Wahito -a Kenyan National suspected of using a fake VISA card to withdraw US$ 2000 (approximately Frw 1.2 million) from Bank of Kigali (BK) at Kanombe branch.
Wahito lied to the bank claiming she was residing at Alpha hotel and managed to withdraw the money. However, upon verification with the hotel management, no one matching her description resided at the hotel.
Alex Bahizi BKs legal services manager said the Bank was alerted by Emirates bank in United Arab Emirates (UAE) about a fraud that had just been committed.
Later Emirates bank sought cancellation of the transaction and called for the arrest of the culprit. Emirates bank indicated that the account holder belonged to one Krishan Sinnadurai, a UAE national.
“Once we learned about the fraud we immediately contacted Rwanda National Police about the matter,” Bahizi said.
Wahito was arrested while attempting to leave the country through the Gatuna border at about 7 PM.
Police Spokesman Superintendent Theos Badege said, “We apprehended the suspect as she tried to cross the border thanks to bank of Kigali for sharing information with us as fast as they could”.
Badege noted that Police was still doing preliminary investigations into the case and fully consider Wahito a prime suspect.
Meanwhile, the bank had a copy of Wahito’s passport which it obtained through the withdrawal process. It passed it on to Police.
If she is found guilty, Wahito is likely to be charged with use of forged documents which carries a sentence of between 5 to 10 years.
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