A legal dispute currently at the Milimani Law Court civil and criminal divisions has exposed a new online scam at the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
The agency is on the spot for allegedly abetting fraud through its online transactions system.
According to court documents, the scam dates from as back as November 2017 when a motorist, who is a complainant in the case, reported that his phone number was changed in the NTSA’s Transport Integrated Management System (Tims).
NTSA system then locked him from getting any updates on transactions concerning his car because of the altered details.
Vehicles awaiting inspection at the NTSA centre.
The motorists accused a couple of engineering the whole scam with the assistance of an NTSA official.
The accused couple allegedly used the car’s logbook to acquire a Ksh400,000 credit from bank and went on to default on payments.
The motorist learnt of the scam when auctioneers impounded his car in Nairobi city center, intending to repossess it because of the defaulted loan.
He later learnt that his car’s logbook was used to secure a loan which was defaulted. He then filed a suit which is still pending in court.
This case comes even as NTSA embarks on a plan to upgrade its services and weed out cases of fraud. Earlier this year, the agency sent out a warning to motorists on an online fraud that was targetting unsuspecting vehicle owners.
The authority cautioned members of the public of fraudsters posing as its officials in…
