A Belgian national who gave his 21-year-old girlfriend a total of Ksh102 million in a span of two days has spoken out about what has been happening in their life.
Merc De Mesel, who is known to be a Bitcoin billionaire, said that he was the one who gave Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge, a student at Nairobi Technical Institute the money and the Kenyan government should stop harassing them for that.
According to him, he gave the woman the money as a gift after she agreed to have a baby with him and that was not a reason to raise eyebrows.
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However, Mesel said that in October, police officers raided his home and even accused him of funding terrorism in the country.
“We were arrested by detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and questioned for a whole day,” he said, adding that they were accused of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Mesel said that after he had sent the money to Nyamathira, he received an alert that the account had been blocked for a span of ten days as the officers were investigating something over the huge transactions.
He said that the lady, was his girlfriend and that they were planning to have children together. In addition, Mesel revealed that the lady was already pregnant for him.
According to him, police officers did not have any right to mistreat them and what they did was bad.
On Friday, November 19- officials from the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) in Kenya moved to court and demanded that the bank account be frozen.
However, the woman had in October told off the police saying that the money was genuine and she had been given by her boyfriend.
She later left Kenya and her lawyers told ARA officials that they do not know when she will be getting back to Kenya.
In court documents, ARA said that the bank account in question was opened on August 2 and the money was channelled to it after exactly two days.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the funds held in the account in the name of the respondent, are illicit funds in which the respondent is involved in a money-laundering scheme designed to conceal and disguise the nature, source location and movement of the funds,” ARA said in court documents.
In court documents, ARA said that the first deposit of money was Ksh25,803,756 which was sent on August 4, 2021.
The second deposit of Sh25,803,756 was made on August 5 with the third and fourth deposits of Ksh25, 242, 756 and Ksh 25, 579, 356 respectively being wired on August 6.
