The two pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges, corruption to defeat extradition and conspiracy to use guns to facilitate their drug trafficking business/FILE
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 25 – Two sons of slain drug baron Ibrahim Akasha have pleaded guilty to six counts of drug trafficking in a New York Court.
Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha appeared in the Southern District of New York where Kenya’s anti-narcotics chief Amisi Massa was present.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the two pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges, corruption to defeat extradition and conspiracy to use guns to facilitate their drug trafficking business.
The two alongside Pakistani national Gulam Hussein and Indian national Vijaygiri Goswami were extradited to the US in January 2017 after being arrested in Mombasa.
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