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Goswami is an opportunist who threw his comrades under the bus to survive, says lawyer Ombeta

Criminal lawyer Cliff Ombeta. [David Njaaga/Standard]

Criminal lawyer Cliff Ombeta has revealed intricate details of the events that led to the 25-year jail sentence slapped on convicted drug baron Baktash Akasha.

In an exclusive interview by the Sunday Standard, for the first time since the extradition of his former clients to the United States, Ombeta talked of a series of abductions, threats, a near-successful escape by Baktash and a fallout among his clients as the noose of justice tightened around the Akasha family and their associates.

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