State security agencies are investigating a Bahrain national Khalid Jameel Said Ahmaad aged 55 years old link to a Pakistan Community Charity Organisation in Kenya. The said community organisation operates in the Coastal town of Mombasa and runs a bank account at DTB Bank Nyali branch, Mombasa. Of great concern is how Ahmaad flew from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Nairobi to Mombasa and attempted to deposit more than Sh100 million at the charity account in DTB. What is
puzzling is how he knew the charity bank account operated at DTB. Ahmaad was in the county early this year traveling on a Bahrain passport.
At one time, he was detained at JKIA as he planned to fly out of the country. Documents seen by Weekly Citizen show that he entered Kenya from Cairo, Egypt. That was the first time Ahmaad was entering Kenya. His target was to open accounts with Islamic banks. It is suspected that his Kenyan network was behind the bank account opening but playing the moves behind the scenes.
First was DTB linked to Ismail Community religious group whose head is His Highness, the Aga Khan. After he failed to open an account at DTB, his next target was Dubai Islamic Bank but he failed. He had USD 1 million. His conduit in Kenya enabled him to fly to Mombasa where they organised the amount be
deposited in the charity one.
Who are the directors of the said charity organisation and what does its work involve? Third, what is the relationship between the said charity and Ahmaad. Four, how did Ahmaad know the account number of the said charity held at DTB and who gave it to him? Documents the bank used to open the account are also under investigations to establish if they are genuine or not. Is the charity organisation registered in Kenya? It is imperative to note that after he failed to open an account with DTB, DIB and failed to deposit in DTB bank Nyali branch, after being turned down, he flew back to Nairobi. At JKIA customs office while making travel arrangements, detectives and customs official pounced on him seizing his luggage.
It is said he had planned to take a flight to Bahrain by Egypt Air and had on him Sh997,000 cash, missing was Sh2.9 million from the amount he failed to deposit.
With whom did he share the money with and was it a person with connection to DTB, and more so, an insider or an official of the charity organisation. KRA and Assets Recovery Authority and other multi-agencies are handling the matter. Pakistan is well known in organised crime of fraud, racketeering, drug trafficking, smuggling, money laundering, extortion, ransom and political violence. At one time, DTB manager at the now closed Nairobi Eastleigh branch was charged in court for failing to flag out suspicious transactions that led to terrorist attack at Dusit in Riverside, Nairobi.
The bank has also been implicated for complacency in complying with banking regulations with reports that customers withdraw large amounts of money running into millions of shillings that at one time was never reported to financial reporting centre. The bank was at one time accused by the state for failure to provide CCTV footage withdrawals. But insiders within the bank holding senior positions blame foreigners for being in charge of strategic departments as key players in determining bank operations including loans, deposits and opening of accounts. The bank’s CEO is Nasim Devji. Alkarim Jiwa is the finance director, Jamie Loden chief operating officer, Shahzad Karim, head of corporate banking, Gopa Kumar head of banking, Venkatramani Lyer head of treasury, Nizar Tundai, head of technology, Suraj Shah, head of centralised customs, Farouk Khymji, head of products and marketing and Azra Thobani, head of service excellence.
Africans or Kenyans occupy less positions such as that of human resource held by Lilian Ngala, Constance Macharia, head of credit, Duncan Okun, head of risk, Hilda Gituro head of compliance, Peter Kimani, head of internal audit and Naftali Mwangi, head of security and forensic investigations. George Otiende is head of branches and alternate channels with Kennedy Nyakomita head of asset finance and western Kenya region. Stephen Kodume is company secretary and head of legal and debt recovery. Keen observers will notice, that Kenyans hold positions in which they cannot make a decision without engaging a foreigner strategically positioned ahead of him or her. Reports implicate Lyer, head of treasury, Tundai, head of technology, Surja Shah head of centralised operation and Gopa Kumar head of retail banking as the people who influence decisions and operations at the banking institution. Surja is the defacto CEO as his department oversees all operations.
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