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By the time she was arrested and taken into police custody, Barbz had conned a Swedish man a total of 101.000 Kr which she has been instructed to pay by a Swedish court sitting in Stockholm city. The money was transferred to Barbz through several transactions which were also well documented by the Swede. Investigations by KSB reveal that although Barbz admitted in court of having taken money from the Swede, she denied wrong doing. The money was received as “loans” by Barbz who promised to repay using her vast resources in Mombasa, Kenya. Between June and July this year, Barbz signed a total of ten documents entering into financial transactions with the Swede who says that he believed that Barbz had money and that she could repay the loans.

A court document shows that the charge carries a maximum of three months jail term. According to the prosecution, the size of loans that were advanced to Barbz by the Swede were not in proportion to the amount of cash Barbz promised the Swede.

For example, the prosecution observed that in the first document signed by the two parties, the Swede advanced 25.000 Kr to Barbz with request for an additional 5.000 kr for triggering a payment of 250.000 Kr to the Swedes account in Sweden. The documents (except one) used as evidence in the case indicates the dates when the cash promised was to be paid in the Swede’s account by Barbz. The Swede was introduced to Barbz by a lady called “Nancy” who then vanishes from the whole story.

According to court documents, Barbz convinced the Swede to borrow her cash by posing as a millionaire who owned property in Kenya and who had large amounts of money at her disposal at Barclays Bank, Mombasa, Kenya.

In another example, Barbz promised to deposit 3.7 million Kr in the Swede’s account if he could loan her cash. The court was told that the Swede had a total of 15 documents in Barbz’s name in his computer which detailed transactions. The first payment was supposed to have been made on 6th June 2009.

Barbz did manage to convince the Swede that the reason why she needed to deposit large amounts of cash in his account as opposed to the small amounts the Swede was loaning her was because since she did not have a Residence Permit to live in Sweden, she did not have the last four digits which could have enabled her to open a bank account in Sweden.

The arrangement was that once the Swede loaned her cash, she would, in turn, deposit large amounts of cash in the Swede’s account after which the Swede would chop off the loan amount and the rest of the cash retained by Barbz. If, for example, he loaned Barbz 25.000 Kr, Barbz would deposit 250.000 Kr in his account then he would deduct his bit of 25.000 kr as Barbz remained with the balance to spend in pubs in Stockholm.

“Barbz Lawyer” in London
The Swede appears to have swallowed the bait that was hooked on a large amount of money being deposited in his bank account in exchange for a small loan. The Swede told the court that he never had any sexual relationship with Barbz although he admitted that he felt “Attracted” to her. Barbz, however, said that the Swede was her boyfriend and that their romance ended on 23rd July this year.

Out of the documents that were availed to police by the Swede, three were addressed to a Mr. Jan Johansson whom Barbz claimed, worked at Nordea Bank located at Hamngatan in Stockholm and whom Barbz said, was in charge of making transactions from her Barclays bank account in Mombasa to Nordea in Sweden. The letters were addressed to Johansson in his capacity as the Bank official in charge of the transactions.

However, according to police investigations, there was nobody by the name of Jan Johansson working at Nordea bank at the said address. Nordea Bank also confirmed to police that no such official existed at their bank while the bank reported that no single transaction had taken place through the bank in favour of Barbz or any of her aliases. Barbz uses at least four other names not known to the public.

Apparently, Barbz had also convinced the Jungu that she had money in Barclays bank in London and, according to police investigations, three letters availed to police by the Swede were addressed to three people – a Barclays bank Official in London, a Barclays bank Official in Mombasa and a Mr. Ian McLean whom, the police said, was identified by Barbz as her lawyer in London.

In court, Barbz admitted that she dictated the content of a letter in favour of the Swede that was sent to a Barclays bank official in Mombasa, Kenya. The documents contained details instructing the Barclays Bank in Mombasa to transfer 4.7 million British pounds to the Swede’s account at Nordea, Sweden.

The document that was forwarded to Ian McLean in London detailed problems that Barbz was experiencing in Sweden in the process of trying to transfer funds to the Swedes account at Nordea. In the Ian McLean letter, the alleged lawyer is urged to put pressure on Nordea to transfer funds to the Swede’s account on grounds that Barclays Bank in Kenya had already done their job by transferring funds to Nordea in Sweden.

Police said that they could not find any evidence that Barclays bank in Mombasa had made any transactions in favour of Barbz neither could Barbz produce any document to prove that the said funds had been transaferred.

As the process of letter writing back and forth continued, Barbz continued to induce the Swede to loan her even more cash which she then pocketed to be spent at Södermalm pubs under the tag of a millionaire.

While KSB has documents showing that more than 8 million Kenyan shillings passed through Barbz just before her case went public, she appears to have ran out of funds after her debacle with Pastor Mapozi. The story continues.

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