We are crushing wash wash gangs, DCI says

Detectives have managed to contain the menace of money laundering cases involving deals in fake gold. https://shorturl.at/eYnMO

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00:00Indeed it is true that in the recent past we as a country experienced a spike in

00:08terms of gold scumming and the victims are mainly from mineral producing

00:16countries and they use Kenya as a transit hub. These clusters do

00:25collaborate with some rogue lawyers and they open escrow accounts whereby the

00:31money is again immediately withdrawn from those accounts. But we have so far

00:39managed and I must say that to downgrade successfully the activities of these

00:45gold scammers in Kenya so much so that they have now relocated to some of our

00:51neighboring countries. We have had successful prosecutions out of a total

00:56of 71 reported cases we were able to identify, arrest and prosecute 64 people

01:05some Kenyans and others are foreigners. And in our investigations I must

01:13confess that the FBI has been able to assist us and we were able to collaborate

01:19with them in particularly in the aspect of social media investigations and as

01:26well in the recovery of the proceeds of crimes. Corruption like you have said

01:34ladies and gentlemen it is a transnational crime and it poses a

01:41serious threat to our international society and as well to the

01:47stability of our states. It is an existential threat and as a country we

01:53have taken deliberate effort to make sure that all cases of corruption are

01:58reported regardless of the persons or the entities involved are expeditiously

02:05investigated and prosecuted. We have so far investigated a couple and we are

02:12still continuing with investigations and several of them are at various

02:17levels of investigations.