03/17/2006
GRANTS
WECHE MOKADHO
;
THE NICHOLAS COLIN OLIVIER WATNEY FRAUD CASE : REPORT NO. 12
Michael Mundia Kamau
C/O Barclays Advisory and
Registrar Services Limited
P.O. Box 30120
00100 GPO
Nairobi
26th March 2004
I was due to meet Dr. Harrop on Thursday evening, 25th March 2004 at the first floor lounge of The Stanley Hotel. Prior to this the Head of Registrar Services telephoned George Otieno of Barclays Africa Security and Investigative Services (BASIS), in my presence, for guidance. This was about 4.45 p.m., Thursday, 25th March 2004. After the telephone conversation The Head of Registar Services gave me Mr. George Otieno’s cell phone number i.e. XXXX XXXXXX for me to contact Mr. Otieno prior to my meeting Dr. Harrop at 6.00 p.m. on 25th March 2004.
I called Mr. Otieno on his cell phone from “my” cell phone at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday evening, 25th March 2004, and Mr. Otieno told me to “flash” him just before going to meet Dr. Harrop at 6.00 p.m.
I again called Mr. Otieno at 6.08 p.m. on Thursday, 25th March 2004, to notify Mr. Otieno that I was on my way to meet Dr. Harrop.
I meet Dr. Harrop at 6.10 p.m. on Thursday evening, 25th March 2004 at the first floor lounge of The Stanley Hotel. Very limited time was spent on small talk. Dr. Harrop told me that the response to “Suresh Jasraj Seth’s” letter from Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services Limited had not as yet been received by Mr. Shah in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, Mr. Shah would still be flying into Kenya on a flight scheduled to arrive just before midnight on Thursday, 25th March 2004. Dr. Harrop told me that Mr. Shah would be in the country for three weeks. Dr. Harrop told me that he was due in the United Kingdom on Monday, 29th March 2004 and hoped to find that the response from Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services Limited had already arrived. He would then send “Suresh Jasraj Seth’s” subsequent response to Mr. Shah in Kenya by DHL.
Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services Limited would then prepare a consolidated replacement dividend cheque in Kenya shillings in favour of Suresh Jasraj Seth and post it to the United Kingdom. Mr. Shah would use his three week stay in Kenya to arrange for the processing of forged documentation and the opening of a Bank account in the name of Suresh Jasraj Seth. Dr. Harrop hoped that “we” would all be able to get our payoffs with regard to Suresh Jasraj Seth’s unclaimed dividends, in the first week of May 2004.
Dr. Harrop was eager to conclude both transactions together i.e. the fraudulent processing of Suresh Jasraj Seth’s unclaimed dividends and the fraudulent sale of Suresh Jasraj Seth’s shareholding. Dr. Harrop therefore asked me to discreetly facilitate the posting of Suresh Jasraj Seth’s EABL share certificate No. XXXXXXXX for 15,940 shares, which was very likely lying in “Return to Sender” filing. If this wasn’t possible, then Dr. Harrop would draft an appropriate response “from” Suresh Jasraj Seth indicating that he was not in possession of his share certificate.
Dr. Harrop then showed me a blank sample of an East African Breweries Limited share certificate which he told me had been generated by the “expert forger” (see report of 15th March 2004). The forged share certificate lacked certain security features such as the watermark, but would otherwise pass as a genuine share certificate to the naked eye.
Dr. Harrop told me that if I was able to deliver Suresh Jasraj Seth’s EABL share certificate No. XXXXXXXX for 15,940 shares to “them”, then “we” would effectively be able to kill two birds with one stone i.e. quickly and fraudulently sell Suresh Jasraj Seth’s EABL share certificate No. XXXXXXXX for 15,940 shares and use the features on Suresh Jasraj Seth’s EABL share certificate No. XXXXXXXX to improve on the forged sample that he had shown me.
Something about what Dr. Harrop was telling me wasn’t falling in place however. To start with, the “expert forger” could use the source of the forged blank EABL share certificate to improve on the security features, and secondly, I recalled Mr. Shah showing me an EABL share certificate during our very first encounter in early November 2003 at the office of Barclays Advisory and Registrar Services Limited. I didn’t mention this to Dr. Harrop though.
Dr. Harrop told me that he had a pressing debt of US $ 14,084 and another less pressing need for US $ 21,116. There was therefore need for urgency.
During the meeting that Dr. Harrop and I had on Thursday evening, 25th March 2004, George Otieno of Barclays Africa Security and Investigative Services (BASIS), called me on “my” cell phone at 7.51 p.m. to ask whether Dr. Harrop and me were still together at the first floor lounge of The Stanley Hotel. I told him we were and that I would call him after 20 minutes.
Dr. Harrop and I ended our meeting at about 8.31 p.m. on Thursday evening, 25th March 2004 and walked out together towards the Hilton Hotel where he told me he puts up while in the country. Dr. Harrop told me that Mr. Shah would get in touch with me and we parted ways at 8.37 p.m.
George Otieno of Barclays Africa Security and Investigative Services (BASIS), “flashed” me at 8.52 p.m. on Thursday, 25th March 2004 while I was on a public minibus on my way home. I sent Mr. Otieno an SMS telling him I would call him when I got home.
I called Mr. Otieno on his cell phone from “my” cell phone at 9.38 p.m. on Thursday evening, 25th March 2004. Mr. Otieno said there was a pressing need to conclude the matter. This came out in our cell phone discussion that lasted about five minutes. Mr. Otieno and I agreed that I would go meet Mr. Otieno at his office on Friday morning, 26th March 2004.
Michael Mundia Kamau
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