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Kenya allowed Somalia criminal to live in the country and extorted him, UN report

NAIROBI: A United Nations report has documented claims that the last grand coalition government recruited a criminal, now jailed in Belgium, for sea piracy and money laundering to assist it negotiate with pirates who seized the Mv Faina ship with 33 T-72 tanks imported from Ukraine off the Somalia coast on September 25, 2008.

Mohamed Abdullahi Moalim Aden alias Tiiceey is the name of the felon Kenya allegedly relied on to negotiate the release of its weapons from pirates. He was jailed last year in Belgium for allegedly supporting sea piracy himself.

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