{"id":245603,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/245603/?format=json","text_counter":114,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Billow","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":260,"legal_name":"Billow Adan Kerrow","slug":"billow-kerrow"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister is clearly down-playing the gravity of the situation. We are dealing with serious economic crimes. The letter that he has referred to of 15th December, 2004 by KACC--- I will read a paragraph. It reads:- \"This bank mainly runs fictitious accounts for some of the big businesses in town for the purposes of tax evasion, siphoning of money out of the country into off- shore accounts and money laundering.\" It was written by the Government of the Republic of Kenya. That was a letter by Dr. Mutonyi of KACC writing to CBK. There are numerous other crimes that are mentioned here. If this is not a very serious matter, and it takes two years for the Government to investigate, I do not know what this Government treats as a serious matter."}