The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has apprehended two individuals believed to have been involved in town separate land fraud.
In a statement by the DCI on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, the authority revealed that the investigations were launched after complaint was reported that unknown individuals were in possession of fake land documents.
According to the DCI statement, the individuals were planning to sell the land without the consent of the rightful owner.
“In the first case, detectives arrested Harrison Kabiru Mugo over an alleged scheme involving forged ownership documents for a prime parcel of land in Mlolongo”, part of the statement by the DCI read.
During the operations, the authority discovered that the suspect had sold the land using forged documents.
After the investigations were complete, the suspect was taken into custody as the police continue searching for three other accomplices.
At the same time, another suspect was apprehended in Westlands, Nairobi following an alleged fraudulent land transfer.
His apprehension followed reports from the registered owners of the property, who reported that the land had been irregularly transferred to another individual through suspected forged documents.
Upon completion of he case file was forwarded to the ODPP, who approved the prosecution of the suspects.
Despite that, efforts to trace and arrest the accused persons, identified as John Mwaura and Abdisalan Adan, initially proved futile after they allegedly went into hiding, prompting the Milimani Law Courts to issue summons and later warrants of arrest.
