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How Kenya's case against firms in Sh6b dirty cash probe collapsed

Money laundering is a scheme to conceal the source of illegal proceeds. [Istockphoto]

The story of four Nigerian-based companies accused of fraud and money laundering has the hallmarks of what American poet Robert Frost described as "assorted characters of death and blight."

At the heart of this tale are two serial technology entrepreneurs from Nigeria - a land infamous for all kinds of financial trickeries - whose companies are moving billions of shillings into and out of the country.

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