Recently released from jail over fraud, Nashon Otieno Angudha is back inside again after the sleuths from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) managed to conclude their investigations into another fraud involving gold.
This is the story if Nashon Otieno Angudha, the scammer who came into prominence in 2020 after stealing funds from National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).
The following stories are compilation from online mainstream sources.
2020
In 2020, the police raided and nabbed frauster Nashon Otieno Angudha, who was then attached to the NHIF office in Mombasa.
He had managed to rip off the national health insurer leading to the loss of SH5 million.
In the affidavit sworn by the investigating officer, Agudha is “the head of a notorious group that has been duping unsuspecting institutions all over the country by adducing false NHIF documents thus receiving services and obtaining drugs to the detriment of the lawful NHIF card holders and health facilities.”
That time, charged in Kisumu’s margistrate’s court; turn out Angudha was not stranger to breaking the law.
Years prior, he had cases of three counts of impersonation pending at the Kiambu Law Courts.
According to the Standard Digital, he was charged with seven counts mostly related to the use of fake identification documents. In one of the counts, he is charged with the intent to defraud Kisumu Specialist Hospital using a national identity card that does not belong to the bearer.
He is also accused of receiving drugs worth Sh300,000 from different health facilities in Nairobi, including Coptic Hospital, MP Shah Hospital, German Medical Centre, Africare Limited and Nairobi West Hospital. Some of the drugs he allegedly received in the racket include Xarelto, Augmentin, Gavison, Tramacet and Human albumin.
As reported in 2020, Agudha was supposed to be back in court on August 31, 2020 for a ruling on his application for bail.
Seems he got it granted.
October 28, 2023
In the October 28, 2023 case, Nashon Otieno, Jack Ouma Okwiri and Felix Ochieng’ Nyongesa lured an Australian man and his Ugandan wife to an office setup in the Runda suburbs, before turning against the couple.
The man was beaten up and the wife sexually assaulted, before the gang robbed and dumped them at Rehema House in Nairobi CBD.
The three were later arrested at the Social House Nairobi Hotel in the Lavington area and arraigned at Kibera Law Courts on November 9, 2023, charged with robbery with violence.
They were released on a Ksh 1M bond with an alternative of Ksh 300,000 cash bail.
April 11 2024
In the recent case, the narrative by the DCI goes like this.
SERIAL GOLD SCAMMER BACK IN LOCK UP DAYS AFTER RELEASE ON BOND
Nashon Otieno Angudha, a key suspect in a series of frauds affecting local and foreign gold merchants has today been arraigned at Milimani Law Courts, after he was arrested Tuesday evening for obtaining Sh35 million from a businessman in a fake gold scam.
In the fraudulent scheme orchestrated on diverse dates between July 13 and October 18, 2023, the 28-year-old is accused of swindling the victim out of the millions by luring him to a purchase and export deal of 100kg of gold to Dubai, the amount being fees for transportation and insurance. After parting with the money which was paid in US dollars ($250,000), nine gold bars given to the victim as collateral were subjected to a test at the Ministry of Mining, but none of them exhibited even a trace of gold element. Nashon then holed up leaving the businessman devastated and poorer, thereby seeking the intervention of law enforcers.
Acting on intelligence, the Operation Support Unit (OSU) detectives conducted a stealth operation at Crystal Spring Apartments in Lavington, Nairobi, managing to net the suspect while in his KDM 523Q Toyota Prado. Crucial exhibits including radio sets and cheque books were seized from the vehicle. Nashon was today arraigned at court no. 5 charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and obtaining money by false pretenses. He pleaded not guilty to both charges and has been remanded until Friday, 12th April, 2024 when bond determination will be made.
The objection to release him on bond by the prosecution followed Nashon’s criminal record, noting that he is implicated in a robbery with violence case at the Kibera court no. 5, for jointly with his two accomplices robbing a foreign couple over USD90,000 when they jetted the country for a gold business.
Will he be released again to scam more as has been the case of his other accomplices?