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Yusuf Ahmed Swaleh, a notoriousdrugtrafficker, before Mombasa Law Courts on April 16, 2019. [File, Standard]
The High Court has ordered the forfeiture of multi-million-shillings assetslinked to the late Yusuf Ahmed Swaleh, a notoriousdrugtrafficker once nicknamed "CandyRain".
Swaleh, widely believed to have inherited the Akasha drug empire at the Kenyan Coast, amassed illicit fortune through years of involvement in international drugtrafficking.
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