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Dirty money: How Ruto's family is benefiting from Saudi slave trade billions

A group of Kenyan girls prepare to leave JKIA TO Saudi Arabia on September 06, 2022. [File, Standard]

The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied and food withheld. Some were beaten by their bosses for offenses as minor as not knowing how to operate a washing machine. Others were killed.

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