(Recast) Kenyan court releases two drug suspects on bail

A Kenyan court on Monday released son of slain drug baron Ibrahim Akasha and a foreigner on 330,000 U.S. dollars surety bond each, who will be extradited to U. S. to face drug trafficking charges.

Mombasa Chief Magistrate Maxwell Gicheru released Baktash Akasha and suspected Indian drug lord Vijay Goswami after they each deposited the bond and two sureties.

The two will be required to report thrice a week at regional criminal investigation office in Mombasa and ordered to deposit their travel documents.

The court will further make ruling on the bond application on the two other suspects, Ibrahim Akasha and Gulami Hussein, a Pakistani, after verifying their sureties.

The two will be remanded in police custody pending the determination. According to court records, Goswami and Hussein were captured with the Akasha brothers in the Mombasa raid conducted by American FBI late last year.

The four are facing extradition to the U.S. where they have been accused of conspiring with an international drug cartel to import narcotics. In the U.S., the four are to face trial on allegations of being part of an international drug trafficking ring.

The detectives believe the four are among those behind the haul of heroine worth over 11.2 million U.S. dollars seized in July 2014 in the Kenyan high seas. Endi