DCI Detectives Arrest Kenyan Computer Science Expert over Cyber-Espionage

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a Kenyan man for allegedly engaging in cyber-espionage. 

The suspect, Archibald Kalela Mwandawiro, was nabbed by sleuths from DCI’s Special Service Unit (SSU) at his home in Wundanyi, Taita Taveta county on Sunday.

DCI described Mwandawiro, 56, as a widely traveled computer science expert at a local university.

Devices used in the interception, access, and transmission of messages to unauthorized recipients were found in his house during the operation.

Also recovered from the house were two Global Systems for Mobile communications (GSM), one fitted with 512 sim cards, four internet routers, a GSM Skyline inserted with 64 Safaricom sim cards, 25 modems, 83 Airtel sim cards, 76 Safaricom sim cards, electric inverter, a HP laptop, mobile handset among others.

“It has since been established that the widely traveled suspect is a computer science expert from a local university, who sends espionage materials to a country in the West,” DCI said in a statement posted on Twitter.

“He is in custody as further investigations continue.”