Kenya risks being banished from the global financial system by a global money-laundering watchdog.
The country is on the radar of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for failing to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, in a fresh likely blow to the struggling economy.
This is after a new report said Kenyan authorities, including the Directorate of Criminal Investigation ((DCI), banking regulator the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) the State anti-illicit cash watchdog, the Financial Reporting Centre (FRC), the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) and the Judiciary are not doing enough to prevent the two vices.
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