The Akashas' downfall was set in motion in November 2014 when they were arrested in Mombasa on drug charges. But the end did not come quickly for the so-called Akasha Organisation, a drug syndicate founded decades earlier by their father. In one taped telephone call, court documents indicate, Akasha drug business manager Goswami told an undercover agent that 98 “chickens” had been procured for delivery to the US. Following the beating of Armstrong, Livondo allegedly confronted the Akasha brothers in Mombasa's City Mall. “Baktash Akasha never harmed his second wife,” Mr Goltzer said in a rising voice.

Source: Daily Nation December 30, 2019 06:56 UTC