03/16/2006
GRANTS
WECHE MOKADHO
;
THE NICHOLAS COLIN OLIVIER WATNEY FRAUD CASE : REPORT NO. 10
Michael Mundia Kamau
C/O Barclays Advisory and
Registrar Services Limited
P.O. Box 30120
00100 GPO
Nairobi
15th March 2004
I met Dr. Harrop at approximately 6.06 p.m. on Friday evening, 12th March 2004 at the first floor lounge of The Stanley Hotel. We engaged in informal discussions for about 10 minutes, before Dr. Harrop showed me copies of both the e-mail he had sent to Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services Limited and the response (see report of 8th March 2004). He also showed me three copies of a formal letter “written by Suresh Jasraj Seth, holder of EABL shares account No. XXXXXXXX”. All three letters were not signed. After further brief discussions, I handed Dr. Harrop a photocopy of the transfer deed bearing the specimen signature of Suresh Jasraj Seth, holder of EABL shares account No. XXXXXXXX. Dr. Harrop was clearly excited.
Dr. Harrop told me that he would deliver Suresh Jasraj Seth’s EABL specimen signature that very evening to the “expert forger” he mentioned to me on 8th January 2004, for him to insert the forged signature of Suresh Jasraj Seth, on the letters he had just shown me. Dr. Harrop appeared to have a high opinion of the unnamed “expert forger” describing him as “intelligent, well educated and professional”, as opposed to an alternative individual he only described as “a Ugandan”. It was unclear whether the unnamed “Ugandan” was in any way connected to “our” planned fraudulent transaction of Suresh Jasraj Seth’s EABL shareholding.
Dr. Harrop also told me that the “expert forger” did not know me personally, as was the impression given to me by Dr. Harrop on 8th January 2004, but only gave me as a reference to Mr. Shah and Dr. Harrop. The impression Dr. Harrop gave me on Friday evening, 12th March 2004, was that a third party or third parties, gave my name as a reference to “the expert forger”, who in turn gave it to Mr. Shah and Dr. Harrop.
Dr. Harrop also told me that “the expert forger” had said that he was capable of forging share certificates, which Dr. Harrop felt we could also use for fraudulent scams. The idea in such a case would be for me to provide a sample of a share certificate for use by the “expert forger”. Thereafter, I would smuggle details of selected shareholder details out of Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services Limited, for insertion onto forged share certificates. EABL shares account number XXXXXXXX in the name of Timothy Stuart
Hurst with a shareholding of 70,291 shares (see report of 27th February 2004), could be the first target of the share certificate forgery scam proposed by the “expert forger”. It would be made to appear that Timothy Stuart Hurst, holder of EABL shares account No. XXXXXXXX had decided to “sell” a part of his shareholding of 15,000 shares, to avoid raising suspicions.
Dr. Harrop told me that he was not a “crook”, and had only been forced into fraudulent activities by the effects of the global economic slump brought about by the activities of the Al-Qaeda network. According to him, the earnings from his brokerage practice had dropped significantly in the period after the attacks of September 11th 2001 on the World Trade Centre. According to Dr. Harrop, the earnings he made from commissions ranged from 10,000 Sterling Pounds per year, to 60,000 Sterling Pounds per year.
Dr. Harrop told me he has all along been expecting me to drop a bombshell on EABL shares account number XXXXXXXX, in the name of Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney (see report of 9th January 2004), and was surprised that no query regarding non-receipt of dividend had as yet been raised by the shareholder i.e. Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney.
Dr. Harrop put this down to realisation on the part of the shareholder that this may have been brought about by the shareholder’s change of postal address. Dr. Harrop appeared to have more information than was apparent on the saga surrounding EABL shares account number XXXXXXXX, in the name of Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney. For instance, Dr. Harrop was aware that Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney had a brother called Michael Christopher Watney of 24 Beulah Road, Turnbridge Wells, Kent TN1 2NR, United Kingdom, holder of EABL shares account number XXXXXXXX, with a shareholding of 77,610 shares. Dr. Harrop told be that the late mother of Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney and Michael Christopher Watney, who Dr. Harrop described as “an old Kenyan white colonial”, had bequeathed her EABL shareholding to her two sons, Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney and Michael Christopher Watney, in equal amounts of 77,610 shares each. Dr. Harrop seemed to be aware that Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney and Michael Christopher Watney were not on talking terms, which may also have been the reason that Nicholas Colin Olivier Watney was unaware of the sale of his shares. This encouraged Dr. Harrop as it indicated that his sources “were not so bad after all”.
For the fourth time, Dr. Harrop asked me to identify a dormant shareholding account in the name of a White, either in East African Breweries Limited or B.A.T. (Kenya) Limited, which he, Dr. Harrop, could fraudulently front for. It was Dr. Harrop’s wish that I do this in time for the identified dormant shareholding account in the name of a White, to be fraudulently transacted on at the same time as EABL shares account No. XXXXXXXX, in the name of Suresh Jasraj Seth. Dr. Harrop showed me a sketch of his Diary which indicated that he was flying out of Kenya on the evening of Friday, 12th March 2004, and would be back in Kenya in the week starting 22nd March 2004. He told me that Mr. Shah was currently in the United States of America, but would also be in Kenya in the week starting 22nd March 2004. Dr. Harrop and Mr. Shah would therefore both be in Kenya in the week starting 22nd March 2004. Dr. Harrop told me that both he and Mr. Shah would use the week starting 22nd March 2004 to prepare forgeries of documents that may be required. Hopefully, Dr. Harrop told me, I would get my first “pay off” in the first week of April 2004.
Dr. Harrop told me that he would arrange for Suresh Jasraj Seth’s “formal letter” that he showed me, to be delivered to Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services on Monday, 15th March 2004. We broke off at 7.36 p.m. on Friday evening, 12th March 2004, with Dr. Harrop rushing to meet the “expert forger”.
At 9.09 p.m. on Friday evening, 12th March 2004, I called Mr. Kisaka of the Central Bank of Kenya Banking Fraud Investigation Unit by way of cell phone, to enquire whether he had observed Dr. Harrop’s meeting with me earlier on in the evening of Friday, 12th March 2004, and Mr. Kisaka confirmed that he had.
On Monday morning, 15th March 2004, I gave the Head of Registrar Services a verbal report of the above. At 1.08 p.m. on Monday, 15th March 2004, Mr. Kisaka called me by way of cell phone for an update. The call got cut off in between and so I called Mr. Kisaka by way of cell phone at 1.09 p.m. on Monday, 15th March 2004. Mr. Kisaka told me that he had consulted with his superiors at the Central Bank of Kenya Banking Fraud Investigation Unit and would arrange for a meeting between himself, myself and Mr. George Otieno of Barclays Africa Security and Investigative Services (BASIS), to chart the way forward.
Michael Mundia Kamau
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