The Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission has arrested two fake Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) officers who, while accompanied by uniformed police officers, were inspecting goods in shops within Bamburi area and thereafter arresting, detaining and extorting shop owners alleging that they were selling expired goods.

The suspects arrested on Tuesday evening had reportedly duped the police officers to believe that they were genuine KEBS Officers on official duty requiring police escort in a crackdown on expired goods in Mombasa shops.

"The Commission mounted an operation at Kadzandani Mwatamba Police Station where the arrested shop owners were being detained and extorted. The fraudsters were demanding amounts ranging from Kes.20,000 to Kes.50,000." reads a statement from EACC 

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The suspects were detained at Mombasa Central Police Station and will be arraigned before the Mombasa Anti-Corruption Court on Wednesday.

Preliminary investigations reveal that the suspects have engaged in similar illegal activities in other parts of the country.