{"id":920340,"date":"2022-01-28T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/bahraini-national-arrested-with-sh110m-in-cash-at-jkia\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:12:17","slug":"bahraini-national-arrested-with-sh110m-in-cash-at-jkia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/bahraini-national-arrested-with-sh110m-in-cash-at-jkia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini national arrested with Sh110m in cash at JKIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Part of the money seized by KRA customs officers at JKIA.<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Customs officers have arrested a foreigner at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on suspicion of involvement in a money-laundering scheme.\n<\/p>\n

The foreigner, a Bahraini national identified as Khalid Jameel Saeed, was intercepted at JKIA with $975,000 (Sh110,760,000) in cash. <\/p>\n

KRA, in a statement, said the foreigner was on transit to Bahrain through Egyptian Airlines.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe alert was that the passenger had earlier made several attempts to deposit the currency in a bank but had failed,\u201d KRA noted.<\/p>\n

His arrest follows security beef-up in the country after the Dutch, German and French embassies in Kenya issued terror alerts yesterday.\n<\/p>\n

Police Spokesperson Bruno Shioso has since called for vigilance from members of the public.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities through our toll-free numbers: 999, 911, 112, and 0800722203,\u201d said Shioso. <\/p>\n

On Friday, the US Embassy also warned of imminent terror activities in Kenya, asking its citizens to \u201cexercise vigilance at public events, places of worship, and locations with large crowds.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

French, Dutch, and the UK embassies in Kenya last night warned their citizens against planned terror attacks in Nairobi, North Eastern, and the Kenyan Coast.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of the money seized by KRA customs officers at JKIA. [Courtesy] Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Customs officers have arrested a foreigner at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on suspicion of involvement in a money-laundering scheme. The foreigner, a Bahraini national identified as Khalid Jameel Saeed, was intercepted at JKIA with $975,000 (Sh110,760,000) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}