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When investment firms go down with your money

In 2015, Aleya Kassam wrote an open letter to Imperial Bank. “Overnight we were rendered effectively broke. Just like that. Every single shilling our family has is in Imperial Bank… We don’t even have the money to pay our electricity bill. And it’s been like that for a month now, with no idea what’s going on or whether we will ever be able to access that money.”

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