‪The Relationship Between Drug Lords Akasha Brothers And Politician Stanley Livondo As Explained By Partner Goswami‬

The Akasha brothers drug cartel and the gangs brutal and murderous methods have been laid bare in a court in New York. In a document released by Geoffrey S. Berman United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York that also sucked in flamboyant politician Stanley Livondo, businessman Ali Punjani among other notable names, Key witness Vicky Goswami  pulled down the veil on the ugly drug cartel.

The story of the drug empire that expanded and thrived by paying out law enforcement agencies, politicians, judicial officers, prosecutors and influential families. A tale of torture and murder by two brothers Baktash Akasha Abdalla and Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla who took over the drug business from their father who was killed in 2000.

For decades before their capture in 2017, the Akashas run an international drug business, distributing large quantities of Mandrax, cocaine, hashish, heroin, and ephedrine, among other substances, to locations all over the world.

The brothers who had grown an enormous sophisticated international drug trafficking network are said to have been purchasing kilogram quantities of cocaine from Tanzania and making a profit of about Sh6 million ($60,000) to Sh7 million ($70,000) per kilo by distributing it to street users in Kenya.

Using proceeds from their mandrax precursor business, the defendants paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to local officials, including prosecutors, judges, politicians, and law enforcement

Goswami regularly visited their operational base which was Baktash’s home in Mombasa and also hang around the brothers through some of the many acts of violences the brothers committed.

In one case the brothers went toe to toe with their drug trafficking ally David Armstrong after a business row. Goswami and the brothers helped David Armstrong bribe Kenyan Immigration officials over $200,000 and in return David would give half a million mandrax tablets to Goswami in South Africa and 25 percent share of David’s  mandrax tablets manufacture in Congo to the brothers.

David who was protected by flamboyant politician Stanley Livondo would then fail to honour the deal and attempt to elude. The brothers in a series of anger then hunted him down kidnapped him and beat him senseless in an attempt to make sure no one would ever cross them again. Goswami further states Baktash threatened to kill Armstrong with his handgun

“He was beating him and he was very angry, and he was
saying: You are playing games with us, you don’t pay our
money. And he kept on beating him.

 Next he moved his gun from his handbag and points at him
and say: I will kill you also.“

In the days that followed that incident at Baktash’s home where he pointed a gun at Armstrong, Goswami testifies to have heard a conversations between Livondo and Baktash during which Livondo threatened to come down to Mombasa and confront the brothers.

“Livondo was telling Baktash: Why did you need beat David
Armstrong? I’m coming to Mombasa and I’m going to beat s**t
out of you when I came to Mombasa. He was threatening Baktash.” Goswami states.

Goswami names Livondo as an Armstrong associate brave enough to confront Baktash at a shopping mall in Mombasa called City Mall.  Livondo he says, approached the brothers in the mall three days after he issued the threats over the phone ensuing a huge brawl in public which saw Ibrahim whip out his gun and threaten to shoot Livondo

“While they were fighting Baktash fell down on the floor and
Ibrahim pulls out his gun and points it at Livondo to stop it,
stop it, otherwise I’m going to kill you.“Goswami states

The sight of Ibrahim’s gun caused panic in the shopping mall, and so Baktash, Ibrahim, Goswami, and a bodyguard quickly fled then later headed to the police station to bribe the officers ensuring that there was no fallout from the incident

Akashas armed confrontation with politician Stanley Livondo saw tensions escalate in the weeks after Armstrong’s kidnapping. The altercation with Livondo only fueled the dispute with Armstrong.  Pinky,  Armstrong’s right hand man based in South Africa was the first to feel the wrath of the brothers after they hired Goswami’s brother in law to kill him. He was pumped with 32 bullets while in his car and a party held at Baktash’s home to celebrate his death.

The document states that in 2014, as part of a sting operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Akashas were given the opportunity to import mass quantities of heroin and methamphetamine into the United States. “They jumped at the chance. Ultimately, the Akashas supplied confidential sources working at the direction of the DEA with 99 kilograms of heroin and 2 kilograms of methamphetamine,” it reads.

Baktash and Ibrahim were arrested in Mombasa by Kenyan and US detectives before they were extradited to the US to face the charges

The self-confessed international drug trafficker Baktash Akasha was sentenced to 25 years in a US jail and fined $100,000 (Sh10.3 million) for conspiring to import and importing heroin and methamphetamine, conspiring to use and carry machine guns and destructive devices in connection with their drug-trafficking crimes while Ibrahim Akasha, his younger brother who faced similar offenses, will be sentenced in November 8th later this year.

Time will only tell what the Kenyan government plans to do about those bribed and named prominent people aiding and abetting the criminal enterprise. Unfortunately as expected, the brothers narcotics smuggling cartels, cocaine and heroin godfathers or godmothers have already taken over the turf and filled the vacuum left open by the family of the extradited drug cartel in Kenya.