Mother and son charged with hacking aid worker's bank account, stealing millions
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Brian Kithinji Bundi and his mother Ruth Kinya at the Milimani Law Courts. They were accused of hacking an aid worker's bank account and stealing more than Sh4.5 million.
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Richard Munguti | Nation Media Group
Ruth Kinya and her son Brian Kithinji Bundi were detained for five days to assist detectives from CBK's Banking Fraud Investigations Unit bring to book the masterminds of the cybercrime.
A mother and her son were brought before the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi for allegedly hacking the bank account of a Kenyan working at a refugee camp in Ethiopia and stealing Sh4.5 million.
Ruth Kinya and her son Brian Kithinji Bundi were detained for five days to assist detectives from the Banking Fraud Investigations Unit of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) bring to book the masterminds of the cybercrime that saw millions of shillings wired from the account of Amos Kipruto Chemonges.