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To curb fraud, we must allow whistleblowers to thrive

By John Kamau

Kenya: When Bradley Birkenfeld decided to provide details of a tax evasion scheme to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), he probably did it to avoid jail. Bradley was facing charges of abetting tax evasion by one of his clients.

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