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Franco Esposito

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Italian Billionaire and Accomplice Accused of Burning Down Neighbour’s Sh667 Million Malindi Property Amid Ignored Warnings

Malindi’s expatriate elite and coastal property circles are reeling after a Kenyan-Italian national long celebrated as a local pioneer and political hopeful was arraigned alongside a co-accused over a catastrophic fire that allegedly destroyed a rival investor’s Sh667 million luxury villa complex. Franco Esposito, widely known in Magarini and Malindi as Kasoso wa Baya, and […]

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