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Safe boxes fiasco forces Barclays to suspend service

Safe box nabbed with Sh2 billion fake foreign currency at Barclays Bank Queens Way Branch. Photo: Courtesy.

Two days after police found fake currency and gold stashed in two safe deposit boxes at a Barclays Bank branch in Nairobi, the transnational has suspended the service.

The bank says it reached the decision to suspend the service due the emergence of new financial crime risks associated with its use.  

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