{
  "id": 17177582,
  "title": "Operation Ghostbusters: How Kenyan ‘sharp boys’ made away with Ksh97M in USA student aid",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/operation-ghostbusters-how-kenyan-sharp-boys-made-away-with-ksh97m-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T04:26:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/operation-ghostbusters-how-kenyan-sharp-boys-made-away-with-ksh97-million-in-usa-student-aid"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An alleged international fraud scheme involving stolen American identities, fake university students, government education funding and cryptocurrency has put Kenyan nationals under the spotlight following investigations by United States authorities. The investigation, known as Operation Ghostbusters, targets networks accused of exploiting America’s federal student financial aid programme to…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Capital FM Kenya",
        "title": "Kenyan faces 10 US charges over Sh2.5m student aid fraud",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/kenyan-faces-10-us-charges-over-sh2-5m-student-aid-fraud",
        "published": "2026-10-30T05:15:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "KahawaTungu",
        "title": "US unveils indictments in Sh97 million ‘Ghost Student’ fraud scam linked to Kenyan network",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/us-unveils-indictments-in-sh97-million-ghost-student-fraud-scam",
        "published": "2026-10-30T05:46:46.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}