{
  "id": 1716336,
  "title": "Treasury officials, business owners arrested over alleged Ksh1.57B fraud",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/treasury-officials-business-owners-arrested-over-alleged-ksh1-57b",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-18T10:35:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KBC",
    "slug": "kbc",
    "url": "https://www.kbc.co.ke/treasury-officials-business-owners-arrested-over-alleged-ksh1-57b-fraud/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has arrested nine suspects over the alleged embezzlement and fraudulent disbursement of Ksh1.57 billion under the Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies (PROFIT) Programme. The commission said its investigations established that Ksh1.569 billion was fraudulently disbursed from the National Treasury Development Account to the…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}