City lawyer Conrad Maloba is in another allegedly deadly scandal barely months after his law firm was implicated in another suspected fraud.
This is after he spent a night in police custody for allegedly, alongside other suspects, defrauding a foreigner of millions in a fake ambulance tender.
The advocates, however, secured his release from the police after he managed to pay a police bond.
Detectives believe that the fraud is part of a multi-layered international fraud network anchored around his law firm’s bank account and is just one of the many.
The advocate whose name is now full in the mud over fraud is also being held under a separate line of inquiry linked to a gold fraud, with detectives seeking to detain him for up to 48 hours without charge as they piece together financial flows that appear to connect two high-value scams to the same legal channel. He is yet to respond to the allegations.
According to multiple details within the investigation, the ambulance scam began with a calculated approach where a Swedish businessman was contacted in January through WhatsApp by individuals posing as regional facilitators with access to government procurement opportunities.
The individuals are allegedly buddies of Conrad Maloba.
The suspect and the businessman exchanged some words, and things quickly escalated into a multimillion-dollar deal involving the supply of 500 Toyota Hiace ambulances, complete with what appeared to be official backing from Kenyan authorities.
Shortly after that, the businessman was flown into Nairobi, received at the airport, and taken to a high-end hotel before being escorted into Harambee House.
Inside the building, individuals presented themselves as senior officials and walked him through documentation that reflected a contract valued at over 36 million dollars. The process was structured and convincing, built to replicate legitimate state procurement systems.
The suspects then demanded some money, following the script of a real tender. He was told to pay a performance security or insurance fee equivalent to three per cent of the contract value. As an entry point, he wired 110,000 dollars as a prequalification fee.
The destination account was not a government account. It was an account held in the name of Conrad Law Advocates at Ecobank.
Sources indicate that Within days, a second transfer of 360,750 dollars was made under the pretext of insurance, bringing the total amount sent to 470,750 dollars.
The suspects, alongside Maloba, used the law firm to move cleanly into the law firm’s account as the syndicate continued to push for additional payments exceeding one million dollars.
The advocate was arrested. On March 10, after detectives moved into a meeting inside Harambee House and arrested Maliba and others where they had already received the money.
The advocate’s account provided confidence for the businessman to channel the cash.
Sources reveal that again the Australian investor reported losing 600,000 dollars in a gold deal that followed a nearly identical structure. He was approached abroad, introduced to intermediaries, and flown across multiple locations, including Tanzania and Kenya, where elaborate staging created the impression of a legitimate gold export transaction.
He was shown documentation, taken through meetings, and ultimately directed to transfer funds through Conrad Law Advocates. The money was wired. The gold never arrived.
Investigators now have two separate international fraud complaints, involving victims from different continents, both directing funds into the same law firm account within a span of months. The combined amount exceeds one million dollars.
The scheme involved senior government officials who used government offices to defraud.
More to follow…