The Akasha crime family is at its end. The drug smuggling brothers have pleaded guilty to six charges in a New York Court including corruption to defeat extradition, drug trafficking and conspiracy to use guns to smuggle drugs.
The American government became interested in the Akasha brothers after they were involved in smuggling heroin and methamphetamines into the US. The US Drug Enforcement Agency then begun covert operations to infiltrate the Akashas business and gather conclusive evidence to prosecute them. This operation led them to Mombasa where they found out the true scale of the Akashas drug network.
The Akashas had met a Colombian drug dealer who was importing poppy (Heroin) from Afghanistan into the US and they would be his partners importing the drugs into Africa through Kenya and South Africa where they had a contact identified as Mr. Armstrong. The operation involved bribery and pay offs to border agencies to allow the drugs in and on the side illegal trophies from poaching were smuggled out of East Africa.
The Akasha brothers were first arrested in Mombasa in March 2014 for drug smuggling and illegal game trophy exportation. However, in a familiar pattern with Kenyan court trials, crucial evidence in the case went missing or was dismissed by the judge allowing the two criminals to walk free.
The Akasha brothers would go on to become notorious gangsters in Kenya, brazenly threatening police officers and businessmen and even being linked with the brutal murder of a South African businessman. All court cases brought against them failed to produce results making them untouchable.
Once the DEA agents had acquired enough evidence against the brothers, an inter-agency effort was initiated between Kenya and the US to have the brothers and their associates prosecuted in the US. The brothers Baktash and Ibrahim were arrested in Mombasa and the extradition process formally begun. Arrested alongside them was Indian national and drug smuggler Vijay Goswami. Goswami has served time in jail in Dubai for drug trafficking before being arrested in Kenya for similar reasons.
Knowing what was awaiting them if they faced trial in the US, the Akashas begun fighting the extradition. Goswami, an associate of the Akasha brothers, has agreed to cooperate with investigators. The Indian drug smuggler has revealed that the Akashas paid millions to Kenyan lawyers, judges and junior officers to protect their drug smuggling operations. Top on the list of judges the Akashas paid is Judge Chacha Mwita and Judge Judy Chepwony.
It is these judges that were approached and paid to frustrate the extradition process, making sure the Akashas were prosecuted in Kenya where a protection racket was in place.
When this effort failed and the Akashas were finally extradited, they paid lawyers to claim that their extradition was in fact a kidnapping and made the trial in the US illegal. This effort also failed and the Akashas were finally prosecuted away from the corrupt justice system of Kenya.
Thanks to Vijay Goswami, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has already opened a file on the judges Chacha Mwita and Dora Chepkwony as well as Akasha lawyer Cliff Ombeta. These could face prosecution in America as drug smugglers and be sentenced to life in prison under their drug enforcement laws.
The Akashas remind us just how rotten our judiciary is.