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The making of Sh594m fraud: 'We thought we were buying an elephant'

Jyoti Mukherjee, CEO, Software Technologies Limited.

You may not know Jyoti Mukherjee or Software Technologies Ltd (STL) yet. But you know about a mouse and its snout, fairly large ears, eyes, and long tail.

Would you buy a rat for half billion Kenyan shillings? Tineyi Kuipa, the senior investment officer at Enko Capital Management, believes his team flew from South Africa to Kenya to buy one - packaged as the fastest growing software solutions provider and information technology (IT) training company in Kenya.

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