The Akasha brothers were a law unto themselves during the decades when they ran their operations in the country, unhindered, and protected by the authorities.
For almost two decades, it is alleged that Baktash Akasha Abdalla acted as the leader of the Akasha Organisation, and Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, his brother, was the second in command.
The two names struck fear in the hearts of their enemies, carrying on with the acts of violence that their slain father, also known as Ibrahim Akasha had started, to protect the reputation of the Akasha Organisation and their drug-trafficking business.
Their illusionary house, however, started to tumble in 2014, but they did not realize it until almost 2017 when the authorities became bolder and shipped them to the US to face trial.
The Sentinel in India on Saturday, September 14, reported that in March 2014, after phone calls and meetings in Nairobi, the Akasha brothers agreed into a partnership with whom they believed to be a South American drug trafficking organization
Unbeknown to them, they had just set up a trade partnership with 'confidential sources' (“CSes”) working at the direction and under the supervision of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Having come to trust the 'South American group', Bakhtash Abdalla is reported to have organized another meeting in Mombasa in April 2014, and there, the South American 'partners' were introduced to a heroin supplier in Pakistan via Skype by the name of Muhammad Asif Hafeez.
In the skype meeting, Hafeez is reported to have claimed that he could provide 420 kg of 100 percent pure heroin, which he called “diamond” quality, for distribution in the US.
The Sentinel also reported that in September, Baktash introduced the CSes to another partner who worked as a narcotics transporter from Afghanistan and shipped huge quantities of narcotics.
Between September and November 2018, the Akashas and the CSes are reported to have exchanged 99kg of heroin and 2kg methamphetamine (meth), before their arrest by Kenyan Anti-Narcotics Unit officers on November 9, 2014, in Mombasa along with Gulam Hussein and Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami alias Vicky.
At the time of the arrests, they are alleged to have been on the way to a meeting with the CSes. Knowing that they had 500kgs of heroin on the way to the country, they called their partners to turn the ship around to evade capture.
It was at this time that the extradition hearing was launched, and while the case raged on in court, it is alleged that the Akasha brothers were carrying on with their drug business under the watch of rogue police officers that they had already pocketed.
In January 2017 however, the DCI orchestrated the extradition of the Akasha brothers so they could face trial in the US.
In August 2019, Bakhtash Akasha was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty. Ibrahim Akasha is awaiting sentencing in November.
The two partners that were introduced to the confidential sources were arrested in 2017 and are currently awaiting judgment.
