Kenyan Akasha Brothers Plead Guilty to Drug Smuggling Charges in the US
Kenyan Akasha brothers Baktash and Ibrahim have pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges at a court in the United States.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) says the two pleaded guilty to six counts of drug trafficking in the Southern District of New York.
“The DCI Director of Anti-Narcotics Unit had assembled a water tight case in partnership with the UN office of Drugs and Crime,” the DCI says in a system.
Baktash and Ibrahim also pleaded guilty to corruption to defeat extradition as well as conspiracy to use firearms to facilitate their drug smuggling business.
“The Director #AntiNarcoticsUnit personally flew to the USA having diligently prepared the case and managed to have the two accused persons plead guilty to drug trafficking charges, corruption to defeat extradition and conspiracy to use guns to facilitate their drug trafficking business,” DCI adds.
The two were extradited to the US in January last year after government agencies discovered a major smuggling operation linking the poppy fields of Afghanistan to cities in the Europe and the US.
The date for their sentencing has not been disclosed.
Comments (5)
If it was in Kenya they would (at the End of Day) be ROAMING free (and if in Kenyan jail: Comfy Treatment). Sasa Wanaju Hawaji!
Finally! Case closed. Lock them up till end of time!
Now come for Joho, Mwau, Muthama, Kabogo and Sonko.
If the Akashas made a Deal with the US Prosecution to call out their Accomplices: Then their Colaborators and Comrades in Crime in Kenya are going Down and In too.
Finally someone did their job.