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Kenya: 3 Chinese charged with fraud in railway project

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Anti-corruption officials in Kenya say they are investigating allegations involving three Chinese men and four Kenyans.

These individuals reportedly stole millions of dollars from train service daily revenue in the East African country.

The seven men were charged in court on Monday with bribery, according to the Daily Nation.

The three Chinese work for the China Roads and Bridge Corp at the Standard Gauge Railway in the coastal city of Mombasa.

The Director of Public Prosecutions in Kenya, Noordin Haji provided these details in a statement.

The majority-Chinese financed Standard Gauge Railway is Kenya’s largest infrastructure project since independence from Britain in 1963.

Report says the 610km project is overpriced and isn’t value for money. It will cost $8 billion and has been compared to the Chinese-financed Ethiopian electric train to Djibouti. That project cost $3.4 billion.

Kenya last year launched a new railway service that will cut travel time between Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa in half.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and a number of Chinese and Kenyan officials were aboard the train for its inaugural run from Mombasa to the capital.

The standard-gauge railway was built with the help of loans from the Chinese government. Chinese companies also built the line and supplied locomotives.

 

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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