Ibrahim Akasha gets 23 years in jail for drug trafficking
Ibrahim Akasha at the Mombasa Law Courts during the mention of his extradition case on November 18, 2014. His was sentenced to 23 years in jail by a US court on Friday. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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The defence lawyer pointed out that Ibrahim was just 10 years old when his father was shot dead in Amsterdam, leaving Baktash in charge of the Akasha drug network.
Ms Cardi further characterised Ibrahim's role as merely that of a “chauffeur and delivery man.”
The attorney noted that Shahbaz Khan, a Pakistani drug trafficker who sought to smuggle thousands of kilograms of heroin into the US, had received only a 15-year sentence last November in the same federal district court in New York.
