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Assets Recovery Agency stripped of powers to keep forfeited cash

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Justice Nixon Sifuna during the Judicial Service Commission interview for Court of Appeal judges in 2019. [David Gichuru, Standard]

The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has been stripped of the function of holding forfeited cash.

High Court judge Nixon Sifuna on Friday said most of the money recovered from proceeds of crime end up being misappropriated hence the need to channel the money to Treasury.

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