Slippery Kenyan drug baron seeking to take over disgraced Akasha's narcotics empire
Mr Swaleh Yusuf Ahmed, alias Kandereni, appears in a Mombasa court on January 24, 2019 for the ruling on his bail application over drug charges. Police say that his drug empire is growing. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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He was prosecuted, convicted and condemned to a 25-year jail term. But he appealed against this judgment and controversially secured his release.
And like the Sicilian Mafia, he quietly went about building a deeply entrenched drug empire in the coastal region with the help of a tightly-knit web of close family members.
