The tracking of bank transactions helped a State agency tasked with monitoring money laundering unearth illicit wealth worth $120.91 million (Sh15.65 billion) in the year to December 2025, reflecting increased use of financial intelligence in fight against economic crime.
Fresh disclosures from the Financial Reporting Centre (FRC), which is the country’s financial intelligence unit, show that suspicious transaction reports filed largely by banks triggered a wave of investigations that have led to the tracing and identification of the billions of shillings.
