Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) customs officers have arrested a Bahrain national with $975,000 (KSh 110,760,000) at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
According to reports, KRA officers pounced on the man while attempting to board a Egyptian Airlines Plane destined for Manama, Bahrain.
Upon interrogations, the man is said to have claimed that the money was payment for a job he had done.
It is said that the man had tried to bank the money earlier in the day but he was not successful, forcing him to board a plane out of the country.
KRA officials were acting on information shared by Financial Report Centre (FRC).
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In December 2020, a Nigerian national was arrested with KSh 100 million in a bag while heading to Dubai.
Mauzu Bala was arrested with 880,000 US dollars, 60,000 euros and 63,000 Nigerian naira stacked in his handbag.
The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) said his failure to disclose that he was carrying such a huge amount of money and produce documents supporting the legitimacy of the cash raised suspicion of money laundering.
When asked why he was carrying such a huge amount, Mr Bala allegedly said he was heading to Dubai for business.
"There are reasonable grounds to suspect the funds found in possession of the respondents in cash may be a direct or indirect benefit or proceeds of crime obtained from a complex money laundering scheme and are liable to be forfeited to the state," Fedrick Musyoki, a police investigator attached to ARA, said in an affidavit.
