Financial Transparency Coalition

Join the live chat, hosted by Thomson Reuters Foundation:

Hashtag is #kenyadirtymoney

Online debate on Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 1400 GMT

http://www.trust.org/spotlight/Kenya-illicit-finance/?tab=live-event

Illicit finance flowing into Kenya has jumped five fold in a decade. Kenya is the easiest place in the world to open a shell company. Global financial regulators tag Kenya as a high risk place for money laundering and terrorist finance, and the World Bank is studying the problem for regional  anti-corruption agencies.  Yet the government is pushing ahead with plans to turn Nairobi into an international financial centre.  Is it building instead a major haven for laundering dirty money?

Join an online chat to discuss the findings of the Thomson Reuters Foundation exclusive: Chic Nairobi throbs to the beat of dirty money

Guests:

John Githongo, anti-corruption expert in Kenya

Alex Cobham, senior analyst on illicit financial flows, Center for Global Development, London

Raymond Baker, president of Global Financial Integrity, Washington