Nairobi, Kenya – A Congolese national has been charged in a Nairobi court over his alleged involvement in a high-stakes gold scam that swindled two Dubai-based companies out of over Sh18 million in a fraudulent deal. Lupemba Lorenzi Olivier was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina on Monday under a miscellaneous application by the Directorate […]
Amenya claims that the Kenyan government is negotiating to transfer control of JKIA, East Africa’s largest aviation hub, to a Dubai-based firm with possible connections to the Adani Group.
Pattni first gained international notoriety in the 1990s as the mastermind behind Kenya’s Goldenberg scandal, widely considered the largest financial fraud in the country’s history.
In the heart of South Sudan, a nation grappling with corruption and economic instability, a Canadian businessman has quietly built a sprawling empire of interconnected companies under the banner of Kush Bank. Ryan O’Grady, a name once associated with scandal in Canada, has resurfaced as a central figure in South Sudan’s financial and humanitarian sectors. […]
Prosecutors say they acted on a complaint from the girl’s mother – but campaigners have criticised the sentence and say the UK government hasn’t done enough to help.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday confirmed receiving former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his family. In a Foreign Ministry statement, it said the country welcomed Ghani on “humanitarian grounds.” Earlier, Afghan media outlets reported that the UAE offered Ghani a residence after his “escape.” The capital Kabul fell to the Taliban after the […]
President Kenyatta has been away for almost a week on official duties and according to local media, the head of state hired a Dubai-based Airbus A318-112 (CJ) Elite A6-CAS as his air transport. According to Information in the CAS website, the private and customized jet is suited with three presidential spacious cabins with sliding partition […]
Plans to expand Dubai’s Al Maktoum airport, the Emirate owned and designed to be the world’s biggest and busiest Airport has hit a dead-end after funds running the project were frozen indefinitely. According to sources speaking to the media, The expanded Al Maktoum was to have an annual capacity of more than 250 million passengers. […]
Just as he had promised, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum is in Kenya. In May, Sheikh Mohammed made headlines in Kenya, after being defrauded close to Sh400 million worth in Gold. Maktoum had threatened to come into the country to ‘get’ his gold back from the fake gold smugglers who had allegedly received money […]
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the leader of Emirate of Dubai has filled complain to Kenya that an opposition senator has conned the Royal family Ksh 400 million of gold. The opposition senator is among a gang of six cartels that are under the keen eye of DCI’s investigations of their involvement in the […]
The society has been filled with ‘get rich quick’ mentality. Many of young generation are doing whatever they are capable of doing to ‘prosper’. Our desk has received information of couple of Instagram accounts that are luring girls into prostitution. Nairobi girls are being lured into sex for cash business in what is termed as […]
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