Half of private companies fail to disclose ownership

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The law requires new firms to fill the Beneficial Ownership Information e-register at the companies’ registry ahead of registration.

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More than half of registered private companies are yet to disclose details of beneficial owners, including names and residential addresses, hurting the State’s push to curb corruption involving public tenders.

Data from the Business Registration Service (BRS), the custodian of a list of all companies and information for entities registered in Kenya, shows only 43.05 per cent of the private firms had declared their business ownership status at the end of June 2023.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.