ChainCatcher news: According to local media reports, Kenya's ad hoc committee investigating the Worldcoin incident recently stated in a report submitted to members of the House of Representatives that Worldcoin's actions "constitute espionage and pose a threat to the country's status" and hopes that the Criminal Investigation Bureau will investigate two related foreign companies, Tools for Humanity (TFH) Corp and Tools for Humanity (TFH) GmbH, for suspected illegal operations in Kenya.

The companies were found to have violated several Kenyan laws, including the Data Protection Act, the Consumer Protection Act, and the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act. Findings showed that neither company appeared on the Kenya Business Registration Services database of registered businesses or companies, and therefore lacked legal authority to operate in Kenya.

As previously reported, in September, Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Minister claimed that US authorities prevented the country from detaining several US citizens who served as executives of the cryptocurrency project Worldcoin. Worldcoin co-founder and CEO Alex Blania and his chief legal counsel Thomas Scott were among those arrested by Kenyan authorities at Nairobi Airport.