Former Old Mutual worker accused of stealing Sh89.5m while preaching motivation online

By the time detectives from the Banking Fraud Investigations Unit (BFIU) arrested Bernard Kariuki last Thursday, he had allegedly siphoned off Sh89.5 million from his employer, Old Mutual Life Assurance Kenya, through a fraud scheme that spanned eight years.

The Credit Control Officer is accused of creating a network of three companies that received money illicitly transferred from his employer. He would later resign, leaving behind a trail of suspicious payments that investigators say they traced to companies linked to him.