Earlier this week global investigative agency Interpol revealed that 24 people had been arrested in Kenya as part of an operation spanning 19 African countries and involving more than 1000 suspects.

The suspects arrested in Kenya were implicated in an online credit card fraud linked to losses of Sh1.1 billion. Much of the details of the suspects arrested in Kenya remain unknown, as are the timeline of the crimes and the victims affected.  

The report by Interpol has once again shed light on Kenya’s growing profile as both a source and transit point for high-stakes cyber security operations that rob victims of hundreds of millions of shillings each year locally and internationally.