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    "id": 1133710,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1133710/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "When the Financial Action Task Force carried out a study to identify the risk groups – the most vulnerable, the legal profession in Kenya was identified as a high risk profession. For the record, between the year 2012, 8th September and 2021, the number of suspicious transactions that were reported on lawyers in this country were 326. The number of suspicious transactions where a lawyer assisted in this country were 579. This is growing. So, basically, we are not talking of lawyers not being included from the blues. It is because every time a transaction takes place, a lawyer – there is no lawyer who owns a bank – will take that money to the bank and the bank will flag that transaction to the Financial Reporting Centre that has its own mechanisms of tracing all these issues. Eventually, they are traced to most of the lawyers. So, why are we putting our lawyers at risk? They do it innocently but what they do not realise is that they handle proceeds of crime in the process. It is our duty to protect the legal professionals who do things in good faith."
}