How Mombasa car dealer defrauds clients – Weekly Citizen

Mombasa car dealer Ali Motors with a branch in Kisumu is alleged to have conned a client who is a mechanic in Kisumu.
Kevin Onyango has accused Shahid Ali of Ali Motors of hatching a plot where his vehicle which he had bought from the said company was stolen after the driver was drugged within Ongalo area in Kisian and dumped in a guest house.
The vehicle was worth Sh2.4 million and Onyango paid Sh1 million through a bank transfer from Kenya Commercial Bank to Diamond Trust Bank of A/C No 0200911001 with A/C name Ali Cars Ltd.
Onyango and Shahid agreed to pay the remaining amount by installments of Sh117,330 for a period of one year from December 28 2018 to November 2019.
He had paid nearly Sh500,000 from the time the vehicle was delivered to him to the time the vehicle was stolen in a racket he believes to have been masterminded by the car dealer.
What is baffling is the manner in which the vehicle was stolen only later to be recovered in Eldoret with a different registration number of KCF 572S instead of its initial registration number KCS 175W.

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According to police OB No 2/28/03/2019 at Maseno Police Station, Onyango reported that his vehicle Toyota Hilux KCS 175W Vigo Pickup got lost.
Onyango claims that he immediately called the dealer in Mombasa when he received information about his lost vehicle adding that he wanted the dealer who had installed a car tracker system to help in tracing its whereabouts.
According to Onyango, the dealer tracked the vehicle to Chebarbar in Nandi county.
The car tracker system later allegedly failed to trace the vehicle, with information from the dealer that the tracking system had been tampered with by unknown people.
Owuor through the help of the Kenya police traced the vehicle and located it in Eldoret.
The vehicle was later recovered in a garage in Eldoret and towed to Maseno Police Station as one of the key suspects escaped the police dragnet mysteriously.
A senior investigative officer in the matter arrested two mechanics where the said vehicle was recovered and questioned them.
They were later released under a police bond.
The said officer started to trace the owner of vehicle registration number KCF 572S which is the number plate that the recovered was found with at the time of recovery.