Investigation Archives » Star Today https://startoday.co.ke/category/investigation/ Latest Kenya news Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:04:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.11 https://startoday.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Star-Today-Icon.jpg Investigation Archives » Star Today https://startoday.co.ke/category/investigation/ 32 32 178011034 Notorious suspects arrested in Kisii, Nyamira operation https://startoday.co.ke/3537/notorious-suspects-arrested-in-kisii-nyamira-operation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=notorious-suspects-arrested-in-kisii-nyamira-operation Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:04:18 +0000 https://startoday.co.ke/?p=3537 Police have arrested three notorious gang suspects in Kisii and Nyamira counties on Wednesday morning during a joint surveillance operation. Detectives from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), supported by officers from the region, arrested the suspects who had been operating with impunity. After investigations by CRIB, the suspects were linked to criminal activities […]

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]]> 3537 Flamboyant city trader Kirimi Koome charged with conspiracy to defraud Sh361million https://startoday.co.ke/2670/flamboyant-city-trader-kirimi-koome-charged-with-conspiracy-to-defraud-sh361million/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flamboyant-city-trader-kirimi-koome-charged-with-conspiracy-to-defraud-sh361million Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:43:33 +0000 https://startoday.co.ke/?p=2670 Flamboyant Nairobi based businessman Kirimi Koome was yesterday charged with conspiracy to defraud a Rwandeese national Sh361 million. Koome took plea to the alleged multimillion fraud charges while appearing before Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina. However, he denied the charges. According to the charge sheet, in what was painted as a meticulously executed criminal plot, Koome […]

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]]> 2670 Bluebird Aviation faces new hurdle as KRA demands Ksh1B tax https://startoday.co.ke/2170/bluebird-aviation-faces-new-hurdle-as-kra-demands-ksh1b-tax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bluebird-aviation-faces-new-hurdle-as-kra-demands-ksh1b-tax https://startoday.co.ke/2170/bluebird-aviation-faces-new-hurdle-as-kra-demands-ksh1b-tax/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:16:59 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=2170 In the third quarter of the 2020-2021 financial year Bluebird Aviation earned Sh221.6 million. The business was booming. The firm was just coming out of a vicious boardroom war among its directors over just how much it has been making in profit since its incorporation in 1992. Co-founder Yusuf Abdi Adan had unsuccessfully sued other […]

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]]> https://startoday.co.ke/2170/bluebird-aviation-faces-new-hurdle-as-kra-demands-ksh1b-tax/feed/ 1693 2170 Bluebird Aviation faces collapse over Ksh100B fraud https://startoday.co.ke/2167/bluebird-aviation-faces-collapse-over-ksh100b-fraud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bluebird-aviation-faces-collapse-over-ksh100b-fraud https://startoday.co.ke/2167/bluebird-aviation-faces-collapse-over-ksh100b-fraud/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:11:09 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=2167 The National Bank chairman, Mohammed Hassan, has been accused of aiding a Sh100 billion money laundering scheme at one of Kenya’s largest chartered flight operators — Bluebird Aviation. The allegations made in court by a founding shareholder of the Wilson Airport-based carrier have sucked Mr Hassan, a former top executive of Dyer & Blair Investment […]

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]]> https://startoday.co.ke/2167/bluebird-aviation-faces-collapse-over-ksh100b-fraud/feed/ 1619 2167 Fistula ambassador Sharon Korir decries poor services at Metropolitan Hospital in Buru Buru https://startoday.co.ke/2041/fistula-ambassador-sharon-korir-decries-poor-services-at-metropolitan-hospital-in-buru-buru/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fistula-ambassador-sharon-korir-decries-poor-services-at-metropolitan-hospital-in-buru-buru https://startoday.co.ke/2041/fistula-ambassador-sharon-korir-decries-poor-services-at-metropolitan-hospital-in-buru-buru/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:07:52 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=2041 A patient identified as Sharon Korir has taken to Facebook to complain about poor services at Buru Buru Metropolitan Hospital. In a post, Sharon said she waited for four hours to see a doctor, only to be told he had left. “I and my two sons have been waiting to see a pediatrician in Metropolitan […]

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]]> https://startoday.co.ke/2041/fistula-ambassador-sharon-korir-decries-poor-services-at-metropolitan-hospital-in-buru-buru/feed/ 1535 2041 Rev Natasha and husband exposed for hiring same man for different miracles https://startoday.co.ke/1885/rev-natasha-and-husband-exposed-for-hiring-same-man-for-different-miracles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rev-natasha-and-husband-exposed-for-hiring-same-man-for-different-miracles https://startoday.co.ke/1885/rev-natasha-and-husband-exposed-for-hiring-same-man-for-different-miracles/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:34:50 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=1885 It is a cinch that Reverend Lucy Natasha is not your typical ‘Kumbaya my Lord’ kind of preacher in long vitenges, headwraps, and tired weaves. She is young and suave- but also controversial. Four years ago, stories went around on social media about a snake that allegedly slithered onto the pulpit during a prayer crusade […]

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]]> https://startoday.co.ke/1885/rev-natasha-and-husband-exposed-for-hiring-same-man-for-different-miracles/feed/ 31571 1885 Police close in on fake gold dealer https://startoday.co.ke/1874/police-close-in-on-fake-gold-dealer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=police-close-in-on-fake-gold-dealer https://startoday.co.ke/1874/police-close-in-on-fake-gold-dealer/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:21:50 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=1874 Kenyan detectives are drawing closer to arresting an international fake gold scammer Andre Ishikunga Kongolo alias Joseph Kimo for swindling several foreign investors. Kongolo, who has all along been conducting his trade in Kenya and Uganda using a false name, Joseph Kimo, is a citizen of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but is believed to […]

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]]> https://startoday.co.ke/1874/police-close-in-on-fake-gold-dealer/feed/ 1583 1874 Man shot and robbed of Sh1.1million in Donholm, Nairobi https://startoday.co.ke/1861/man-shot-and-robbed-of-sh1-1million-in-donholm-nairobi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-shot-and-robbed-of-sh1-1million-in-donholm-nairobi Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:29:13 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=1861 Police in Nairobi are in hot pursuit of an armed gang that has robbed and shot a man in Embakasi area. According to Embakasi Sub-County Police Commander John Nyamu, the gang who were riding on a motorcycle shot the man on the groin before robbing him of Sh1.1 million. The victim had just withdrawn Sh1.1 […]

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]]> 1861 Faces behind illegal broadcast media gambling amid claims of tax evasion https://startoday.co.ke/1841/faces-behind-illegal-broadcast-media-gambling-amid-claims-of-tax-evasion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=faces-behind-illegal-broadcast-media-gambling-amid-claims-of-tax-evasion https://startoday.co.ke/1841/faces-behind-illegal-broadcast-media-gambling-amid-claims-of-tax-evasion/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:08:06 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=1841 Leading broadcast media outlets and telecommunication service providers have been cited as being in an unholy union in perpetuating unlicensed radio betting and prize promotions of the largely unregulated sector, investigations by The Star Today have revealed. The Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) is on record raising fears that by operating in unregulated environment without the […]

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]]> https://startoday.co.ke/1841/faces-behind-illegal-broadcast-media-gambling-amid-claims-of-tax-evasion/feed/ 2473 1841 SportPesa’s Kenyan, Bulgarian shareholders fight over billions https://startoday.co.ke/1299/sportpesas-kenyan-bulgarian-shareholders-fight-over-billions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sportpesas-kenyan-bulgarian-shareholders-fight-over-billions https://startoday.co.ke/1299/sportpesas-kenyan-bulgarian-shareholders-fight-over-billions/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:05:31 +0000 http://startoday.co.ke/?p=1299 Wealthy and influential investors behind SportPesa have fallen out over allegations of transfer of $278 million (Sh29.1 billion) from the company’s coffers to overseas accounts and sale of shares in the firm’s holding company. The shareholder fight in the sports betting platform is pitting local majority shareholders against its foreign owners from Bulgaria in a […]

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