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A Kenyan Member of Parliament is on the radar of United States authorities for reportedly evading a jail term.
Fafi MP Osman Mohamed was convicted with tax evasion in the US in 2015 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, reports Daily Nation.
Mohamed had reportedly been charged with 32 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns amounting to $600,000.
He was arrested by undercover Criminal Investigation unit detectives of the Internal Revenue Service who approached him to prepare their Federal Income Tax Returns for 2007.
Mohamed used a company he co-owned with Yahya Sheikh to make fraudulent tax return documents with the aim of seeking tax refunds for his clients.
“The undercover agents did not provide him with an indication that they had incurred any of the false deductions that were placed upon the completed income tax returns,” Federal Tax Alert, an online publication reported.
After his arrest, Mohamed entered into a plea bargain agreement with the prosecutors and implicated his partner Sheikh, who had already fled the US to Canada.
The politician later got himself deported to Kenya as an illegal immigrant before serving his sentence.
American authorities are seeking to have him extradited to the US to serve his sentence.
Attempts by Daily Nation to get a comment from the MP were unsuccessful as he could not be reached.
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Like most people have commented time and again, most Kenyans are not just THIEVES, they are also fraudsters coming in different form and shapes. They are economic fraudsters and con men, looking for any opportunity to mine unsuspecting and innocent clients of their hard earned dollars. Defrauding a government, like Fafi Osman Mohamed did, to the US government, is going too far: smart, smartest, smartest. In the US, your are a criminal, but once in Kenya, your are cerebrated, and IEBC don't give a heck. As said earlier, Kenyan fraudsters comes in all forms and shapes. They spread their tentacles in all spheres of life salivating for any soft target. I was once preyed upon 4 years ago when I was relocating back to Kenya and had a huge cargo to ship back home, by one William Ng'ang'a Macharia of 8302 Stewart Court, Laurel, MD 20724(Hyattsville, Prince George's County), born Feb.1972 about 6ft tall, and owns a 2003 Acura tag#2DJW96 and a 2011 maroon Honda Pilot tag#7BH9288, owner of DMV Shipping LLC, a Pharmacist by profession, last know employer Kaeser Permanente, of WhiteMash, Baltimore. Initially, I had made a deal with Titan Impex Shipping LLC of New Jersey, owned by a Mr Ndung'u, to ship the cargo at a good rate. But once William Ng'ang'a Macharia got the wind of my relocation, he smooth-talk me and offered an enticing lower deal. Cut the story short, 10 months later waiting for my cargo to arrive(usually takes 8 weeks), over 60% of my cargo (worth over $8785.00) was either lost or stolen. Fours years down the river road, this fraudster has been taking me in circles, talking of compensation that never was. I still regret even today for not taking Titan Impex LLC offer. This guy William Ng'ang'a Macharia think he outsmarted me. Well, he did. But I told him one blunt thing, that however long it will take, one day God will compensate me in full, and may him or his 4th generation, go through the pain and predicaments he punctured in me. And I even told him that all his life, if he ever hurt any other Kenyan man/woman from Maryland, may US and State government agencies including State Troopers, Baltimore City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel County police and even federal agencies, give him peace and comfort, as herein dictated. And that's not all, God is Supreme, and He listens to the cry of those in pain, and may fate befall before my sunset years. All in all, there are people who were born to hurt others, and get away with it, like William N. Macharia. I will always wish him well.
@ William N. Macharia, please ask for forgiveness and compensate @IdaVethi accordingly. It's the right thing to do. I feel his pain!
Ida Vethi,
I am sorry about your dreadful experience. I think it is bigoted to say MOST kenyans are theives, just because of a few bad experiences.
A full and his money are soon parted. You were not conned because the conman is evil, you were conned because of your greed and lack of knowledge. Why didn't you save others from the same fate by filing charges??
Dada IdaVethi umefanya jambo zuri sana kuchapisha jina la huyu tapeli jambazi ndugu yetu ili watu wengine wasije wakatapeliwa naye kwenye siku za usoni.
Asante sana na pia pole sana kwa yote mabaya yaliyokupata. Nakutakia kila la kheri Dada.
Gadamn Idavethi. Where did you go? How is Kenya? Everything ok? I know this guy? He is a crook. He tried to sweet talk me into giving him my stuff. I ran and ran.
Sorry Ida for what you've gone. Worked with Willy for a year or so. He never pay his debt. Bure kabisa.
Yet another Kenyan fraudster. Oooh man, his state mined him $7229.92 for unpaid taxes last year. Malipo ni hapa hapa @Imara Daima.
Damn! The feds nailed this Mr. Smart with a $26,643.29 for last year's unpaid taxes. He could have compensated the guy with $8750.00 and live happily ever. Sasa hio italipa rednecks na manyeuthi welfare in food stamps bandala angelipa huyo madam asipate laana. We Kenyans useless people.
@Imara Daima, me also feel for this Kenyan. How does somebody lose your cargo and feel its just ok. A pharmacist earning more than $120/h, and destroys an innocent soul. May he burn in hell! Idav, sue this idiot!!!!!!!!!!
@confraud, thats how Kenyan men treat their women, like trash. I gave this guy my merchadize to ship to Kenya but when I went to pick them up somewhere on Kiambu road, my stuff were scattered all over and exposed to the weather elements, and he was demanding sh100,000 more. My driver sped off. Very greedy looked like he was gay. Loosing five times more than could have spent. Akili kidogo daktari.
Quick math. MD state=$7229.92+Feds=$26643.29=Total$33,873.21. Ngai baba! Thats my annual total earnings as a GNA assistant before taxes. Afadhari kidogo that gives me blessings. The pain of this Kenyan will eventualyy devor and consume him and his descendants. Lol!
Hey ida, being waiting for jamhuri updates. Sorry for what happened. Thought i would join you this year but these spate corruption in Kenya makes revisit my decision. Contact me at okotjc@gmail.com and Will take care of the rest...free of charge.
@Idavethi, come on man. Used to read and follow all your commentaries n blogs. You too queit. Anyway, chill up. This DMV shipping guy is a mess of himself. Work with him but on a different location. Cant drive anymore. Never do that to a fellow man. Good luck in jamhuri.
Ni dhahiri (evident) ya kwamba WAFULA CHEBUKATI hafai hata kidogo kusimamia tume ya uchaguzi kama mnavyoona.
Sura (chapter) 6 ya katiba yetu haimruhusu huyu ndugu yetu Osman Mohamed kugombea kiti chochote kwenye bunge au serikali yetu ya Kenya.
Je, ni mimi peke yangu ambaye naona uzembe wa WAFULA CHEBUKATI au kuwa wananchi wengine ambao wananiunga mkono?
Ili tupate Kenya mpya 2022, ni lazima WAFULA CHEBUKATI astaafishwe mapema kwa manufaa ya taifa zima la Kenya.
Times am ashamed of being called Kenyan. Kenyans are really making us look bad here in the US, just like Nigerians. Fafi Mp just like another ODM loud mouthed ex mp who used to be a truck driver here in Washington DC have warrants. Thats why he has never stepped on US soil since he became an Mp during nusu mkate regime. @ Idavethi, dont worry about such people. You will get all your sweat one day, beofre his sunset.
I concur with ImaraDaima. Anika wote hapa mwakilichi tuwajue. Will never ship my stuff through DMV shipping. You see this Willy guy and you think you met and angel. He cant escape justice. It will come in many forms. Hio ya state, feds na traffic violations ni kiojo tu. he got lots of nerves. Pay up boy!
Asante IdaVethi for letting us know about this DMV sh*t. I feel your pain and I hope WNM gets what he deserves . This other thief, Osman, should lose his MP-ship and be made to pay in full. Wana tuharibia jina.
I know Nigeria man who used to prepare taxes for us: with good returns. So everybody including nyeuthis were flocking there. When they caught with him, he was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, plus they took a huge place he had just bought worth over $1.2m then jailed for 4 years.
@Idavethi, Its is possible this idiot William Macharia had not being paying his dues including for years, or that DMV sh-t was a conduit to evading taxes. Sorry ida for what you've being going through. This moron ain't going nowhere. Mark my words!
I am not here to support or criticize anyone. You know business is a dirty game. Original commentator to the shipping business may be right or wrong. Idavechi may be a competitor aimed to promote another business, a jealous person, a sour former business partner, a true victim etc. With all the possibilities, I feel sorry if its a true victim. Its a shame to have entrusted another person with your good future settlement essentials only to have the opportunity taken away. On the other hand, the shipping guy should be responsible to ensure whatever the service he lender is real and truthful. He may have a good faith sending your stuff but the people he work with collecting the stuff from the port may be crooks. I dont see any kenyan in good mind find valuables in a container and bypass them. You see them steal valuables in secure places like airport, what do you think they will do in River road, Banana or Muchatha? in short if this is true, the shipping guy should compensate the victim. The victim gave and paid for his cargo in good faith, the shipper should match. The shipper should know of whom you working with on the other end. You all know kenya is upside and beyond repair where even trusting your sibling is kind of no no. You hear what some say in the village and city "TV iyo thaka uguo na ni ya Sony ndingihituka" tukuga ndiokire/ndiariho.
@ Kiihu, I like the way you took the issue without fear or favor. What a wisdom. I need some of it. Actually I know the individual, from my former neighboring town of JoppaTowne. Its real. The individual spent a colossal amount of madouble double to buy that that as he would put it, "cushion from the effects of relocation." Am the one who introduced him to Titan Impex owned by a Mr. Ndung'u, of Newark( New Jersey), an efficient and trustworthy shipper that I had used to ship a number of boxes home. Shocked to learn later that he changed his mind and trusted an unknown shipper, from i think Anne Arundel County. Called me months later and told me the cargo hasn't arrived yet, and the shipper had gone under. Then our communication went dead. Hope everything is ok wherever he settled. Kenyans are animals @Kiihu. They know how to destroy a fellow Kenyan. We were brought up that way: to hurt and wipe out our own people.
Kenyan have already reached a point of no return in matters of thievery, con men and fraudsters, impersonators, financial predators, corruption, fake pastors, fake gold, fake leaders, fake Osman Mohamed, fake Raila, fake KQ, sugar, fake maize, fake rice, electronics, fake wives, fake husbands, fake spouses, fake degree, fake doctorate, fake hospitals, fake medicines, fake doctors, fake pharmacists, fake US diasporan, fake Huduma Namba, fake ambassadors, fake Mpigs, fake MCas, fake William Ng'ang'a Macharia, fake myself. How do one gathers nerves to defraud US of $600,000 in fake tax returns and think he is so smart he has gone somewhere. Then comes this so called Idavathi story. How the heck could this guy promise to ship ones loot to Jamhuri, receive payment and then do that. Mr William, this world is so small. Tafuta hio jamaa mmalizane naye, otherwise maneno kama hayo ya mdomo isipokupata itapata watoto wake, na kizazi chao. My tow sense. Just saying.
@idavathi, am so sorry about what happened. The four years you stated is too long for anyone to fail to compensate anyone, yet he appears to be able. Checked this guy's lapsheet. Might need any documents in PDF to see what I can do, if interested. You gotta a case...and no charge.
I concur with you @KĪIHŪ. A wise man or a good businness prospector would do anything to satisfy any customer, then file for loses at the year. Thats what Walmart, Sears, JCPenny, Home Depot, MacDonald, and many big and small businneses do here in the the US. Because the customer is always right. I always buy something na ikini bore, naridisha with no question asked. Why, because they want me back. I think its true @idavachis story. I dont think he can just pop up with any story to destroy ones business. I think Ihave read this story a second time, previously when there was Chris Kirubis story on cancer diagnosis. People were mad and cursing Chris Kirubi then idavachi raised his story about this DMV shipping guy William Nganga Macharia. If he still has not sort it out with this idavachi, i dont the bitterness will go away by William nganga burying his head in the sand. Decorance demand some sort of wisdom which in my opinion, this shipping guy is lacking. My humble word is, never hurt any human being for Gods sake. One continue experiencing weird stuff, mara hii, mara mtoto mgonjwa, mara State mara Feds hivi,and you wonder, whats going on? Life is just too shot. Solve this issue once and for all, brother. Maisha iendelee.
He has probably crossed the border to Somalia never to be "seen" again. I say follow the MP's monthly salary which will continue getting paid out to catch him.