Nigerian in Safaricom hacking scam presents sealed ‘evidence’

The Nigerian national who had claimed involvement in a whole day shutdown of Safaricom Limited network on Tuesday, May 24 has presented before court a formal complaint of his allegations.

The document filed by the accused person through his advocate was termed as private and confidential and presented in a sealed envelope not for public consumption.

The document will be in a safe file and not to be accessed by everyone.

Nairobi Milimani Chief Magistrate, Francis Andayi, however, ordered that the report be taken to the DCIO Central Police Station on the basis that the complaints do not relate to the case file before the court at the moment and require independent investigations.

The foreigner arrested with over USD600 million (Ksh 70 billion) in fake currency had claimed that he helped hack into the Safaricom network last month.

Mohammed Sani, alias Dr Mustafa, from Niger, early in the week shocked a court with his claim that the recent Safaricom network outage that triggered panic across the country was planned and executed from his cell at Industrial Area Prison in Nairobi.

The nationwide shutdown of Kenya’s largest mobile phone network provider caused panic in the country on April 24 with no transactions and calls not going through.

The suspect was charged in a Nairobi Court in January 2016 alongside Cameroonian Ousman Ibrahim Bako with being in possession of papers intended to resemble and pass as US dollar currency and Euro currency notes.