By EDITORIALMore by this AuthorKenya has in recent years gained a reputation as the nerve centre of a suspected international network of fraudsters posing as gold traders and targeting prospective foreign buyers with heavy discounts. Potential buyers are then asked to travel to Kenya where they are showed actual gold, sometimes in facilities purported to be “refineries”. What should concern everyone about the alleged criminal network is not that it exists at all. But in this instance, there are allegations that the suspected gold fraudsters are protected by some senior police officers and other influential individuals in government. This is given credence by victims’ claims filed over the years that despite reporting and identifying those who stole money from them, no arrests are made.

Source: Daily Nation June 24, 2017 17:26 UTC