Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) security officers and Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives on Tuesday arrested three Chinese in possession of 11.9 tonnes of assorted copper and another 13 tonnes of copper that were about to be exported.
KPLC says the suspects assembled the seized copper from stolen and vandalized transformers across the country.
According to KPLC, a multi-agency security team is said to have been trailing the illicit copper business that has left several homes without electricity.
"We arrested the three at the industrial area in Nairobi and we shall arraign them in court."KPLC says.
The three Chinese nationals are currently in police custody, with detectives pursuing the leads of individuals linked to vandalism of transformers.
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According to KPLC, the power supplier has been losing billions of shillings to unscrupulous cartels vandalizing transformers to mine copper.
