Police are looking for the directors of Melsco Travel Agency and Alisam Universe Travellers Limited who have conned millions of Kenyans in fake foreign jobs placement.
Melsco Travel Agency is owned by Cynthia Chepkorir and his estranged husband and at one time operated from Kilimani area in Nairobi while Alisam Universe Travellers Limited is owned by a Gentleman who is only identified by his business name as Dr. Maina.
Below is Cynthia Chepkorir and his husband
Alisam Universe Travellers Limited operates from Westlands, Nairobi area.
Victims who spoke to this publication said they paid between Sh 350,000 to Sh 400,000 to the two mentioned companies with the promise of securing jobs in Europe and Arab countries and what they have been holding are worthless papers and have been chasing the refund without any success.
”I paid Sh 359,000 to Melsco Agency Limited on 13/12/2023 and i was promised to work in Poland .Almost a year later , i have never recovered my money and i have been paying bank loan i had taken to facilitate the payment,” Sam Kinuthia says in his report at Kilimani Police Station.
Melsco Agency Limited is not registered by the government and industry regulator to recruit for foreign jobs .
The matter has been reported at Nairobi Regional police headquarters and investigations are continuing .
Lilian Kamanu Ondata paid Alisam Universe Travellers Limited Sh 600,000 with the promise of taking his two family members to Qatar and Canada, nearly a year, she has never been placed for a job and is still repaying loans she had borrowed from a Sacco to finance the purported job.
The new development comes a few months ago after widespread exposes of how recruitment agencies are making millions of money by collecting money from Kenyans in guise that they are able to connect them with foreign jobs outside the country as biting unemployment hits the country.