Kenya proposes to legalise phone, email tapping in illegal cash fight
Telephone calls and emails of Kenyans suspected to be dealing in money laundering and terrorism financing will be tapped if parliament approve changes to a Bill seeking to escalate the fight against terrorism and dirty money deals in the country. The parliamentary committee on Finance proposed the changes to the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating of Terrorism Financing Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023 seeking to legalise the bugging of suspects’ private communication. The proposal, if adopted by the House, will give the State security machinery unfettered access to private communications of suspects in money laundering and terrorism financing. Read more https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/state-to-legalise-phone-email... The question is if this is best practice search and seizure and whether it follows best practices. Should such orders be restricted to an order of the court? -- Best Regards, ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwendwa-kivuva
Greetings Kivuva, I guess this has already been happening outside the confines of the law. My worry is it is likely to be breached. I hope the courts will have measures to deal with misuse of this provisions to tackle errant officers. Best Regards On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:17 PM Mwendwa Kivuva via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Telephone calls and emails of Kenyans suspected to be dealing in money laundering and terrorism financing will be tapped if parliament approve changes to a Bill seeking to escalate the fight against terrorism and dirty money deals in the country.
The parliamentary committee on Finance proposed the changes to the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating of Terrorism Financing Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023 seeking to legalise the bugging of suspects’ private communication.
The proposal, if adopted by the House, will give the State security machinery unfettered access to private communications of suspects in money laundering and terrorism financing.
Read more
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/state-to-legalise-phone-email...
The question is if this is best practice search and seizure and whether it follows best practices. Should such orders be restricted to an order of the court? -- Best Regards, ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwendwa-kivuva _______________________________________________ KICTANet mailing list -- kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To unsubscribe send an email to kictanet-leave@lists.kictanet.or.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at: https://mm3-lists.kictanet.or.ke/mm/lists/kictanet.lists.kictanet.or.ke/
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