Kenya: 3 Chinese to be charged with bribing investigators
Source: Associated Press
Kenya: 3 Chinese to be charged with bribing investigators
By TOM ODULA
November 25, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Three Chinese nationals will be charged by the countrys anticorruption authority for paying a bribe to influence the outcome of fraud investigations, Kenyas director of public prosecutions said Sunday.
The three Chinese men work for the China Roads and Bridge Corp. at the Standard Gauge Railway in the coastal city of Mombasa, Noordin Haji said in a statement. Haji said the three will be charged with giving a bribe of $5,000.
Part of the Chinese Belt and Road initiative, the majority-Chinese financed Standard Gauge Railway is Kenyas largest infrastructure project since independence from Britain in 1963. Critics say the 610-kilometer (380-mile) project is overpriced and isnt value for money. In total it will cost $8 billion and critics have made comparisons to the Chinese-financed Ethiopian electric train to Djibouti which is 750 kilometers (465 miles) and cost $3.4billion.
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According to local media, investigators are looking into allegations that the three Chinese men and four Kenyans were part of a web skimming millions of shillings from train service daily revenue.
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