Merc De Mesel slept with three Kenyan women Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge, Tabby Wambui Kago and Jane Wangui Kago and gave them Ksh259 million.
Mesel gave Felesta Ksh108 million, Tabby Ksh102 million and Jane Ksh49 million, money which was deposited in their respective bank accounts.
In November 2021, detectives from the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) moved to court and got an order to freeze the bank accounts belonging to the three ladies which received the millions from Mesel.
Justice Esther Maina ordered the account to be frozen for 90 days in order to allow ARA to establish the source of the money in the bank accounts.
ARA believes that the funds were transferred unlawfully and for unknown reasons. According to agency, the parties might have been involved in money laundering.
21-year-old Felesta Njoroge was the first one to receive Ksh108 million from the Belgium bitcoin billionaire.
Few days later, Merc De Mesel sent Tabby Wambui Kago Ksh102 million and the account was frozen again. Later, Mesel sent Jane Wangui Kago Ksh49 Million.
Interestingly, it turns out that Jane is the sister to Tabby. Jane revealed that her sister Tabby met Merc in 2017, lived together in 2018, after which he flew back to his country and he kept sending her money.
Another interesting fact is that Tabby and Felesta are also very good friends, they know each other.
Felesta, Tabby and Jane are now at risk of losing all the millions that Merc De Mesel gave them for ‘having a fling with them’.
ARA in an application filed before the High Court in Nairobi said they completed their investigations and established that the women are part of an international ring of fraudsters engaged in money laundering.
“We have discovered that she (Felesta) is part of a syndicate involving complex money laundering schemes with individuals from various countries including Belgium from where she received the money on the pretext that it was a gift from her boyfriend,” said ARA through lawyer Stephen Githinji.
The agency is seeking court order to have the suspects forfeit the frozen millions to government for being proceeds of crime.
ARA also told the court that Merc De Mesel transferred a total of Ksh650 million to five different individuals between February 2020 and August 2021 without disclosing the source of the funds.
Investigators said that Merc De Mesel and Felesta fled Kenya to Tanzania by crossing the Namanga border as pedestrians on October 2nd 2021.
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