Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations CID is probing more than 20 bank accounts which the criminal intelligence department suspects of funding terror.
Intelligence shows the Kenyan government is investigating 20 foreign and local bank accounts which may have directly funded terror cells or maybe serving as conduits or link accounts for channeling money to terror cells/operatives in Kenya and the region.
The accounts may have received and routed money to other accounts operated by people of suspicious character.
These accounts users may have also withdrawn money which may be traced when it changed hands to terrorists.
The Banking Fraud Investigation Unit detected suspicious activity in these bank accounts for a period of time to acquire a bias and reason to launch investigations.
CID’S financial intelligence unit of the directorate is also profiling mosques sponsoring terror in the country particularly Mombasa.
