How crooks used ghost Congo trader to smuggle goods to Eastleigh

People going on with their businesses in Eastleigh, Nairobi on February 16, 2025.

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State agencies have burst a smuggling scheme in which cargo destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) export market was diverted to traders in Nairobi’s sprawling Eastleigh business district.

The smugglers had over time been duping government officials at the Mombasa port that they were making exports to a consignee in the DRC allegedly known as Kandama Kasongo Franchoise who later turned out to be fake.

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