The gambling firm MOZZART BET KENYA owned by two nondescript Serbians , a Zimbabwean and a former cabinet minister is coming under more scrutiny following a series of media campaign blitz and a number of cooperate social responsibility donations in what observers see as an attempt to divert public attention to accusations of money laundering .
Country manager Sasa Krneta is on the spotlight for leading this money laundering syndicate with the two Serbian criminals wanted back in their own country to face several criminal charges.
The two Serbians Melentijevic Branimir, Loncar Koviljka and a Zimbwabwean Emmanuel Charumbira who all are directors and former cabinet minister Musa Sirma also a director are the faces behind this criminal gang aided by the Betting Control and Licensing Board Manager Peter Mbugi.
Krneta runs secret bank accounts to handle dirty proceedings from Mozzartbet under the pretense that he is offering various services.
Betting firm has been in the eye of a storm after a State agency questioned the source of morethan Sh600 million the company had wired to a businessman’s bank accounts in a span of five months.
The Assets Recovery Agency has flagged the transactions as suspicious,
Questioning the source of Sh640 million that the betting firm wired to Kimaco Connectionsbetween February and August in a case filed at the High court.
This indicates that the agency believes the money was not generated from gambling activities
under MozzartBet.
A closer scrutiny has now been focused to three firms that have close dealings with Mozzart bet.
The three are Kmaco connections owned by one Peter N. Kiilu and his wife Consolata Mwende Kiilu.
Another is Open Skies management services owned by Zimbabwean Emmanuel Charumbira.
Two other firms Pescon and power energy is also under scrutiny as their ownership remain mysterious.
Also under scrutiny is Cooperative bank of Kenya where millions of shillings have been moved failing to report such mysterious transactions to Central Banks Financial reporting center.
The ARA, which is seeking to seize and forfeit the cash to the State, has dismissed MozzartBet’s explanation that it paid the money to acquire from Kimaco Connections a software, which the latter subcontracted another firm, Open Skies Management Services,to deliver.
Owners of Kimaco Connections wired Sh242 million to Open Skies Management Services, which is owned by Zimbabwean Emmanuel Charumbira and a shareholder of Mozzartbet.
The agency says that the unclear source and wiring of the cash to a web of accounts, including many owned by MozzartBet, a pointer to a money laundering syndicate.
Court records indicate that MozzartBet used its pay bill number 290059 to wire millions through another pay bill number 311372 associated with Kimaco Connections to its pay bill 311372.
Ochieng Otieno says
Hello, my name is Ochieng Otieno
I have been betting with Mozzartbet and on 9th September 2021, I placed a weekly Jackpot bet and correctly predicts 0 (zero) games are entitiled to a cash prize which is shared equally among the winners. I am the only one who correctly predicted 0 games, as I was informed when I made inquiries from their customer care.
By the end of the last game, I checked my bet slip and I had won Ksh. 186,040,000.00 this was 00:45 hrs. This ticket indicated I had won until 10:00 hrs that it was now changed that I lost the bet and I had won nothig. I became curios and I immediately called Mozzartbet via their help line on 0709168000. And I explained my case, the customer care first refused and said the bet I had placed was not a Jackpot but a normal bet I had to ask her to check again severally, realizing that am not easily gullible she admitted grdugingly and said she is reporting my issue and calling me back after five minutes. Five minutes passed to 10, 20, 30 and 40.
At this time I decided to login to check if my ticket had been rectified, to my suprise I could not log into my account. I was using the correct login details but it kept telling me invalid username or wrong password.
So I called back and was served by a guy called Geofrey. I had to start a fresh eplaining to him my issue which in between I could tell he was uneasy me explaining into specific deatils and would occassionally cut me short to interrupt my thoughts but I was adamant and stopped him asking if I have not explained my problem to completion what did he want to respond to?
When he now got time to speak he begun by telling me my account was reset, and I asked why my account was reset without my prior knowledge nor me reporting any issue that I had a problem to access my account.
He took me through mumbling explanation that were divisionary but I still insist to ask two clear questions
1. Why is my ticket altered that I lost yet immedaitely the last match was played my ticket indicated that I won Ksh. 186,040,000 and by their Game rules it indicates I won
2. Why was my account reset that I the owner cannot access it?
I made several calls and most of the time these people couldn’t convince me or give me satisfactory answer so they ended up either hanging up the calls or giving me promise to call back after looking into it to find where the problem is, which they did not.
Until now (04:54 hrs 14/09/2021) that I am writing, this issue is not solved. I have proof of all of this.
Their some is something fishy with Mozzartbet Kenya
Anonymous says
They sometimes claim to have techicall issues so we wait as they alter our tickets