The Head of the Mobile Money Segment Of Regional Expansion at Safaricom Brian Wamatu has recently been charged to court for unlawfully copying and sharing private subscriber information with unauthorized individual known identified as Mr Charles Njuguna Kimani with intent to defraud
Brian Wamatu was arraigned in court alongside his colleague Billy Kinuthia who is the Senior Manager in charge of Network Systems Audit at a Safaricom.
The two colleagues were also accused of wrongfully demanding 300 million Kenyan Shillings from the Telecommunications company.
They denied the charges and were released on a bail of 1 million Kenyan Shillings cash each.
The court also instructed them to report to the Director of Criminal Investigations twice a week until the next hearing on the 16th of July 2019.
Brian Wamatu previously served as the Acting Director, Safaricom Financial Services, a role which was held by Betty Mwangi who then left Safaricom for Britam.