Good morning, dear Sir,

I hereby come to inform you of an ocorrue situation with a Gold transaction in Kenya (Nairobi), which I ask you to please publish it on your website and thus contribute to alert your readers and be able to avoid other situations alike with these people.

Following a request from a Gold buyer in Dubai, I was put in contact with Olivier Mbueki (Congolese) by a common contact, as being a seller with an available quantity of AU in transit in Nairobi (Kenya) . After several telephone meetings between the parties (given the different locations of the parties the whole process happened by telephone) where Olivier Mbueki was accompanied by Paul Muhindo (who passed himself off as a Diplomat from Congo).

After a few weeks of discussion a SPA was signed between the buyer and the seller, the latter represented by Paul Muhindo as its CEO, SPA validated by the respective lawyers of the parties. The SPA provided for the payment by the buyer of 50% of the taxes due to Kenya on the first trial (100kgs), condition accepted by the buyer against the establishment of a collateral in AU equivalent to 2x the amount of 50% taxes, which the seller agreed to.

Following various delays in the execution of the contract, the responsibility of the buyer, delays always accepted by the seller. More than 5 months from the start of the contacts, the operation was still on standby for the sending of the trial, on the suggestion of Paul Muhindo (Seller's CEO) saying that if the intermediaries participated in the shipping costs of the trial he undertook to pay the remainder and proceed with the trial to Dubai.

Assuming and confirmed that the buyer had a collateral in his name, we agreed to pay more than 45,000usd to Olivier Mbueki and others, including a certain Cadet Buruku (important name, see below).

Our first surprise was when it was necessary to liquidate the taxes in Nairobi for the trial, Paul Muhindo tells us that the customs requires that the AU deposited in colateral be part of the shipment of 100kg, and from this our guarantee would no longer exist but had built a good relationship with these people (we spoke several times a week), despite several postponements of Paul Muhindo's trip, he ended up finally showing up in Dubai on a Thursday, where one of our partners has received.
As of Monday, it was planned to go and verify that the Gold had arrived in the Dubai Free Zone, but at the last moment Muhindo announced that the gold was blocked by one of their partners to whom he owed a fairly considerable amount (more 1M usd) 2/3 days after Muhindo announces to us that he succeeded in negotiating this debt but that we had to pay 400k usd to release the 100kgs in customs, asking if we could finance them, that was the last surprise.

After this "bomb" the certainties are installed we were in front of a scam, our partner in Dubai raised a number of questions and noticed that the person in Dubai under the name of Paul Muhindo did not correspond to the passport that we had in the contract, corresponded in full to the passport that we had as being Cadet Buruku (name, to whom we had been part of the payment of 45,000usd), put in front of the fact he categorically denied now that his name was Paul Muhindo , confirming his availability to go and check the 100kg at customs the next day, but never appeared at the meeting place, no longer answered the telephone calls, the doubts were becoming reality, Paul Muhindo did not exist, his name was in fact Cadet Buruku.

Following these events, we had the confirmation that the Company used as Seller did not know any of these people (Olivier Mbueki, Paul Muhindo / Cadet Buruku) nor were part of its executives, we contacted the law firm used as Agent escrow of the seller and having validated the SPA and IMPFA, and the surprise was in fact only a confirmation, these people were unknown to the law firm, but their bank references were correct.

To date, these people are wanted in Congo and Kenya following the petitions of the Company used and the law firm.

We were also able to have confirmation that these people do not act alone and would be part of a well structured group operating in Kenya and Tanzania.

Attached are the identifications of the people involved in this scam.

Please confirm me as soon as you publish the alert

With my best regards