The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has ordered an investigation on whether Musalia Mudavadi’s press secretary Salim Swaleh has been involved in sexual offences against minors, sauce.co.ke has established.
The DPP in a letter sent to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said that his office had received complains that Swaleh, who was arrested last weekend for fraud has allegedely committed sexual offences against minors.
“We are in receipt of a letter dated May 23, 2024 from the firm Amanya and Company Advocates addresed to you and copied to us,” said the DPP through his assistant Jacinta Nyamosi to the DCI on June 5, 2024.
“Kindly gain sight of the contents of the said letter and undertake comprehensive investigations into the alluded allegations and foward the file to us for directions,”said the DPP.
Swaleh is currently under police custody after being arrested in connection with a complex fraud scheme at Mudavadi’s office.
According to a press release issued by Peter Warutere, Secretary Strategic Communications at Mudavadi’s office, the suspects facing impersonation, fraud, and abuse of office charges were apprehended following a tip-off.
“The arrests followed a tipoff that alerted OPCS-MFDA security, who then mounted intense surveillance at the OPCS-MFDA Railways Office to disrupt the reported nefarious acts of impersonation and abuse of the facility by the fraudsters,” the statement read in part.
According to investigations, a group posing as visitors would gain individual access to the Railways Building on various dates and times by impersonating VIP guests or government officers, as well as the officers they claimed to be visiting.
Their victims, according to Mudavadi’s office, were mostly foreigners who were led into the Railways Building ostensibly to meet with high-ranking government officials in exchange for favours and bribes.
Investigations into the fraudsters’ cabal have revealed co-conspirators, including government officials who aided their illegal activities.
Mudavadi’s Director of Press was among those apprehended after the swindlers were discovered with fake door switch-nametags inside his office.
“Apparently, government officers arrested had perfected “renting” office space to criminals by either vacating their offices for the fraudsters’ use, or deceptively misrepresenting themselves,” the statement from CS Mudavadi’s office stated.
“This deception also meant switching legitimate name tags with fake ones on office doors to advance the scams.”
Detectives say the suspects attempted to bribe their way out shortly after being arrested.