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Kenya fines British terror suspects

27 September 2011 23:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Three British men have been fined Â£220 each by a Kenyan court after being arrested over the suspicion of organizing terrorist activities in the African country, APA reports quoting Press TV.

British Foreign Office confirmed that the three British nationals were detained saying â€œWe are aware that a number of British nationals were arrested in Mombasa, Kenya, on September 22.â€ Nevertheless, no comments were made about suspected offences made by them.

Nick Cryne, 30 from Manchester, Niall Young, 34 from Cheltenham, and Ben Hope, 27 from Birmingham, have confessed to working undercover for an intelligence company, unlawful employment, and providing immigration officers with false information.

The team of the three British men led by Cryne, a former Royal Marine who has worked on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, lied to the officials at Kenya’s second-largest city Mombasa’s Moi International airport claiming to be tourists spending five days in the countries.

Intelligere, the firm for which the trio worked, has rejected accusations of plotting terrorist activities claiming the three British nationals were private detectives investigating a suspected corporate fraud. The British men were arrested as they were trailing two executives allegedly engaged in swapping company secrets.

â€œTheir activities conducted prior to being arrested and put in jail were wholly legal. They are not linked to terrorism,â€ said Gary Lincoln-Hope, chief executive of Intelligere.

Furthermore, Lincoln-Hope acknowledged that the British Embassy in Kenya and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been in contact with the company saying â€œthey have been tremendously helpful.â€