Nathan Lloyd Ndung’u, the owner of the now defunct DN International, a real estate development company, has been arrested in Nairobi over a fraud case he faces in Rwanda.
According to a report by Kenya’s Business Daily, which is owned by Nation Media Group, Ndung’u was arrested this week as he arrived in Nairobi from a foreign country.
He is a subject of an Interpol Red Notice following a case in which he was tried in Rwanda and sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
This was after he was convicted of defrauding property buyers from a real estate project by his company.
Ndung’u, whose firm DN International was involved with at least two residential housing projects, fled Rwanda in 2011 after an investigation was commissioned over fraud allegations.
Reports indicate that he was arrested as he landed from the US and was presented before a Nairobi court on Wednesday, February 2.
The prosecution, led by Catherine Mwaniki, made an application to detain him at the Inland Container Depot Police Station for 21 days, pending a formal extradition request from Rwanda.
However, through his lawyers, he opposed the detention, saying he should be released on bail.
The prosecutor opposed his release saying he was a flight risk given he had left Kenya while an international arrest warrant was still out for him.
The prosecution argued that being a dual citizen, Ndung’u might head back to the US, where he also has citizenship.
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