Kenya extradites four men to U.S. on suspicion of heroin smuggling

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Kenya extradites four men to U.S. on suspicion of heroin smuggling

By David Lewis and Katharine Houreld
ReutersJanuary 31, 2017

By David Lewis and Katharine Houreld

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four men charged with directing a major heroin trafficking ring have been extradited to the United States from Kenya, a law enforcement official and an investigator told Reuters on Tuesday, in what officials say is a major blow to East Africa's cartels.

Baktash Akasha and his brother Ibrahim were arrested two years ago in Kenya along with two other men, Gulam Hussein and Vijaygiri Goswami, in a U.S.-led sting operation.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) spent years infiltrating the "Akasha organization," which it alleges is a major smuggling operation connecting the poppy fields of Afghanistan to the cities of Europe and the United States.

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