How Kenyans got caught in $130m US ghost student scamJust nowOndiro OgangaNairobi
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US Assistant Attorney General Colin M McDonald vowed to pursue all those involved

In May 2024, Francis Mogambi arrived in the United States after winning the Diversity Visa lottery, a programme that gives people from around the world a chance to become permanent residents.

Just over two years later, the Kenyan national found himself at the centre of a US investigation into an alleged nationwide scheme to defraud the federal student aid system.