Police have arrested nine employees of Njiwa Sacco in connection with the disappearance of Kes 160 million from the Cooperative Society.
They were arrested following a collaborative inquiry by detectives and officials from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
"The nine are; Amos Kipchumba who was the internal auditor, the loans manager Violet Wali, the accountant Caren Langat and system analysts Hamisi Zaunga and Miriam Nthenya," DCI said in a statement.
"Others are a teller identified as Nicodemus Osiemo, Eric Rono from Sure-step Systems, Moses Ntoinya an NIS officer who colluded with the SACCO staff to siphon the funds and Tony Wabomba a former employee of the SACCO society."
Since dismissed from the SACCO, the suspects are set to be arraigned on September 25.
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"They face nine counts of conspiracy to commit a felony, stealing by servant, false accounting by servant, negligence, computer fraud, forgery, uttering a false document, access with intent to commit an offence among other charges," said the DCI.
Police are pursuing three other suspects believed to have been involved in the incident.