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Brothers Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha when they appeared in a Mombasa court for their extradition case early last month. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]
The tumble of the Akasha dynasty began on November 11, 2014, when Kenyan and US agents burst into the palatial homes of the drug lord's sons in Nyali and captured them.
The sons of slain drug lord Ibrahim Akasha, Baktash and Ibrahim, were detained alongside Indian felon Vijaygiri "Vicky" Goswami and Gulam Hussein of Pakistan.
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