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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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Land Cartel Ring On Grabbing Spree in Malindi Unmasked.

A crime syndicate involving foreign nationals and corrupt government officials extorting businesses and grabbing land in Malindi and Kilifi county in general has been unearthed. The syndicate also involves lawyers used by foreign nationals, mostly Italians to transfer land and company shares illegally and deny legal owners access to their properties, particularly in parts of […]

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