A bank manager with the Diamond Trust Bank has been linked with a Sh. 6.7 million bank theft.
The manager who has been identified as Ms. Carolyne Mwenesi Musungu is reported to have given the cash to a stranger in her office contrary to the set rules and regulations.
Apparently, she had failed to remit Sh. 6.7 million to the Central Bank in Kisumu as required, witnesses have said.
Ms Musungu, who was second in command at the branch, had been left in charge of the bank on May 24, 2017, after the manager, Graham Sultani Iravonga, went to Vihiga on official duty. The witnesses told Chief Magistrate Bildad Ochieng’ that Musungu walked out of the bank and could not be reached on the phone.
Before leaving, she was said to have turned away G4S staff who had come to take the money to Central Bank, telling them to come later when she was done with repatriation documentation. The G4S officials returned an hour later, but the head of cash was not in the office.
“I could hear Musungu tell the officers to come a little later to enable her to finalise the documents. On coming back, they didn’t find her and she was unreachable via phone. That is when we informed our boss,” Ronald Kiprono, who worked in the front office before he was transferred to Embu, told the court.