Hawala manager arrested in crackdown on illegal money transfer in Nairobi

Hawala is a traditional system of transferring money used whereby the money is paid to an agent who then instructs an associate in the relevant country or area to pay the final recipient. [ picture courtesy]

A manager at a Hawala joint in Nairobi was on Wednesday arrested accused of illegally transferring money to Somalia in a crackdown aimed at addressing suspicious and illegal financing.

The manager was arrested in Eastleigh as Anti-Terror Police Unit backed by officials from banking fraud unit officials raided ten financial joints to check on transfers that had been made then.