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Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a lawyer in connection with an alleged Ksh69 million gold scam. 

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a lawyer in connection with an alleged Ksh69 million gold scam. 

In a statement on Thursday, August 6, DCI said the suspect, Alphonce Collins Odoyo Osewe, was apprehended after being on the run for months. 

According to the DCI, the suspect was nabbed within the precincts of the Milimani Law Courts. 

“The suspect, Alphonce Collins Odoyo Osewe, was arrested by detectives from the DCI Nairobi Regional Office within the precincts of the Milimani Law Courts pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued after he failed to honour court summons,” DCI stated. 

Following his arrest, Osewe was arraigned before the Chief Magistrate’s Court at Milimani Law Courts. 

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File image of the Milimani law courts. 

The lawyer was charged with obtaining money by false pretenses, contrary to Section 313 of the Penal Code.

The investigative agency noted that Osewe fraudulently obtained Ksh69,024,800 from a complainant after falsely claiming they were in a position to sell gold bars.

“It is alleged that he jointly obtained Sh69,024,800 from a complainant by falsely pretending that he and an accomplice were in a position to sell gold bars,” DCI stated. 

The warrant for his arrest was issued after he failed to appear before the Chief Magistrate's Court at Milimani on October 23, 2025, to take a plea. 

Following Osewe’s arrest, the court ordered that he be remanded in custody pending the determination of his bail application. 

This comes days after DCI detectives arrested a Nairobi-based lawyer after he allegedly duped his client out of Ksh49.4 million.

The accused had allegedly stolen the money, which the client had given him to purchase prime land within the city.

DCI detectives tracked him down to upmarket Kilimani after the lawyer's client filed a complaint against him. 

"Investigations established that the complainant entrusted the suspect with Ksh49,400,500 on diverse dates between 16th November 2023 and 3rd January 2024 to facilitate the purchase of the land.

"However, instead of applying the funds for the intended transaction, the suspect allegedly diverted the money and unlawfully converted it to his own use," DCI stated.