The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has stepped up efforts to combat illicit financial flows through a series of nationwide sensitization seminars focused on Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorism Financing (TF).
The initiative, which began with Training of Trainers seminars, has progressively expanded to include senior officers, members of the Inspectorate, and detectives of other ranks.
The structured rollout underscores the agency’s renewed commitment to intelligence-led investigations aimed at dismantling financial crime networks.
“Our goal is straightforward: to trace illegal financial flows, disrupt criminal networks, and deny offenders access to the proceeds of crime,” said DCI Director Mohamed Amin while addressing participants during one of the training sessions.
This week’s four-day seminars brought together detectives from DCI Headquarters, as well as officers drawn from the Nairobi Area, Rift Valley, Eastern, and Central regions.
The sessions were held at the Kenya School of Government in Embu County and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KARLO) in Naivasha.
Participants were equipped with enhanced technical knowledge and practical skills to detect, investigate, and disrupt money laundering and terrorism financing networks.
Key areas covered included financial intelligence analysis, asset tracing and recovery, inter-agency collaboration, and compliance with international ML/TF standards.
The intensified training comes amid Kenya’s recent placement on the grey list by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a designation that subjects the country to increased monitoring over strategic deficiencies in combating money laundering and terrorism financing.
By strengthening investigative capacity at the operational level, the DCI aims to bolster Kenya’s response to increasingly sophisticated and cross-border financial crimes.
The agency says the sensitization programme reflects the country’s determination to safeguard the integrity of its financial system, protect legitimate businesses, and restore investor confidence.
As financial crimes evolve in complexity and scale, authorities maintain that building technical expertise and reinforcing institutional coordination remain critical in ensuring Kenya meets global standards on transparency, accountability, and financial security.
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