Nairobi, June 2 -- Global payments giant PayPal has frozen money in an unknown number of Kenyans' accounts and permanently banned other users over failure to prove their employment and residential details.

The company has been demanding that Kenyan users receiving money from overseas give details of their contracts for the work being paid for, bank statements and proof of their physical addresses to access their money.

Users who do not provide these details have been blocked from transferring their cash to other users or withdrawing the funds for at least six months.

Accounts that remain non-compliant for over six months are permanently deactivated without wiring back the cash to the sender, as part of the anti-money laundering drive....