Kenya: DCI Refutes Claims Government Officials Were Involved in Harambee House Fraud

Nairobi — The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has refuted reports suggesting that government officials were implicated in a high-profile fraud case at Harambee House last week.

DCI in a statement sought to clarify that the seven suspects arrested last week were “purely external fraudsters who exploited public institutions for criminal gain.”

The suspects had allegedly posed as officials from the Ministry of Interior, National Treasury, and Ministry of Health to defraud two Swedish…