A group of special detectives are in the country to finalise investigations into a money laundering cartel.
This follows the interception of a plane that was allegedly transporting millions of dollars at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Monday.
The plane that was supposed to depart from JKIA on Monday was stopped after the discovery of 40 boxes weighing about 11 tonnes concealed as gold.
"We have so far found out that the plane came from Libya and arrived in Kenya from Chad,” one of the detectives who requested not to be named said.
The investigators have been drawn from South Africa, Botswana and Dubai, countries that are connected to the money laundering cartel.
According to a 2014 US government money laundering and narcotics report, Kenya remains vulnerable to money laundering and financial fraud.
"Kenya is a transit point for international drug traffickers. Trade-based money laundering is a problem in Kenya, though the Kenya Revenue Authority has made recent strides in improving internal monitoring and collection procedures,” the report says.
The Financial Action Task Force that monitors money laundering, for the first time, named Kenya in its Public Statement in February 2010.
However, Kenya reported substantive improvements to arrest the matter.
The establishment of the Financial Reporting Centre under the Proceeds of Crime and Anti Money Laundering (Amendment) Act, 2012 whose mandate is to identify proceeds of crime and combat money laundering is one of the measures Kenya has put in place to fight this matter.
Uganda, is ranked in second position after Kenya followed by Tanzania and Rwanda respectively in money laundering in the East African Region.
Money obtained from laundering has been allegedly used in the region to finance terrorism and drug trafficking.
In 2012, a report from Global Financial Integrity, "Illicit Financial Flows from the Developing World 2001-2010,” found that the developing world lost $5.86 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2001-2010