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Report: Counties new avenues for 'wash wash'

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is probing 25 counties for various corruption cases involving Sh13.3 billion in public funds. [File, Standard]

County governments are emerging as the new avenues for money laundering and illicit financial flows, with taxpayers losing billions of shillings each year to the growing menace.

This is according to a new report by the National Taxpayers Association (NTA) and Global Financial Integrity (GFI) that reveals the gaps and inefficiencies exploited to syphon public funds from the devolved units.

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