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Notorious drug baron's multi-million assets to be forfeited to state

Yusuf Ahmed Swaleh, a notorious drug trafficker, before Mombasa Law Courts on April 16, 2019. [File, Standard]

The High Court has ordered the forfeiture of multi-million-shillings assets linked to the late Yusuf Ahmed Swaleh, a notorious drug trafficker once nicknamed "Candy Rain".

Swaleh, widely believed to have inherited the Akasha drug empire at the Kenyan Coast, amassed illicit fortune through years of involvement in international drug trafficking.

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