Bilal Kimali Ndechumia, a businessman whose yacht was blown in 2015 with Ksh28 million narcotics ahs been set free due to lack of evidence linking him to the consignment.
His yacht was blown under Presidential orders after it was confirmed that it was carrying narcotics in its water tank.
He had denied any involvement in the trafficking of narcotics worth Sh22 million found aboard the vessel.
Ndechumia Bilali Kimani said in court yesterday that he was out of the country on April 10, 2015 when anti-narcotics police stormed Kilifi Boat Yard where the luxury vessel was moored and arrested five suspects in connection to the drugs.
He was later arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in 2017, after being deported from Madagascar. He was assumed to have been privy of he narcotics therein after seeking release of the vessel.
Senior Principal Magistrate Henry Nyakweba on Friday acquitted Bilal Kimali Ndechumia (pictured) of all drug trafficking charges after the prosecution failed to link him to the narcotics.
He was alleged to have been working with Clement Serge Bristol a Seychelles national who was the yatch captain, and four Kenyans.
The Kenyans included Ahmed Said Bakari, Mohamed Bakari Mohamed, and Ahmed Hussein Salim
Last year, Bakari was sentenced to 22 years in jail while Bristol was slapped with a 10-year jail term.