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Sh1 billion drugs deal that sank the Akashas

Baktash Akasha and his brother Ibrahim when they appeared in a Mombasa court for their extradition case in 2017. [File, Standard]

A Sh1 billion heroin drug deal is the ruse a secret US agent used to lure the Akasha brothers into a trap that led to their downfall. 

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