{"id":214743,"date":"2025-11-24T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-third-suspect-charged-in-sh100mn-international-fraud-money-laundering-case\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:35:46","slug":"kenya-third-suspect-charged-in-sh100mn-international-fraud-money-laundering-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-third-suspect-charged-in-sh100mn-international-fraud-money-laundering-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Third Suspect Charged in Sh100mn International Fraud, Money-Laundering Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A third suspect linked to an alleged cross-border fraud and money-laundering scheme involving more than USD 800,000 (Sh103 million) has been charged at the Kahawa Law Courts, expanding a case investigators say targeted a foreign investor through a coordinated criminal network.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Stephen Juma Ndeda, a director at Toureg Insurance Agency Limited, was on Monday arraigned before Senior Principal Magistrate Richard Koech, where he denied five counts &#8212; conspiracy to defraud, obtaining money&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240735.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 A third suspect linked to an alleged cross-border fraud and money-laundering scheme involving more than USD 800,000 (Sh103 million) has been charged at the Kahawa Law Courts, expanding a case investigators say targeted a foreign investor through a coordinated criminal network. Stephen Juma Ndeda, a director at Toureg Insurance Agency Limited, was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":214744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6683,7081,8666,4337,4688,430,21781,257,52950,254,6550],"class_list":["post-214743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-charged","tag-fraud","tag-international","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moneylaundering","tag-news","tag-sh100mn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspect"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}