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Seven foreigners found guilty of trafficking heroin worth Sh1.3 billion

Bags of heroin seized after draining Amin Darya ship's diesel chambers in 2014. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

A Mombasa court on Friday found seven foreign nationals guilty of trafficking heroin worth over Sh1.3 billion to Kenya.

Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku said that the six Pakistanis and one Iranian national who were hired as crew members aboard Armin Darya failed to exonerate themselves and reveal the owner of the said drugs.

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