A suspected Mombasa drug baron Yusuf Ahmed Swaleh alias Candy Rain was on Sunday found dead in Vipingo, Kilifi County.
According to reports, Swaleh’s body was found dumped on Sunday evening days after he was taken in for interrogation by persons posing as police officers.
Speaking to the media, his lawyer claims that individuals who identified themselves as police officers showed up at his doorstep and ostensibly told Swaleh that they needed to interrogate him and subsequently took him in nine days ago.
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Since then, the suspected Mombasa drug baron has never been seen till on Sunday when his body was found lifeless in Vipingo area in Kilifi County.
Allegations have placed Swaleh as the kingpin of the drug trafficking at the Coast following the extradition of Akasha brothers to the United States on drug trafficking charges.
Since his alleged takeover, Swaleh has been on the officials radar and has been acquitted severally in drug trafficking cases. The most recent instance was in 2018 when he was charged with trafficking Ksh275,000 heroin.
On this case, Swaleh was arraigned and his case case was initially being heard at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts before Swaleh requested that the case be transferred to Mombasa.
Later, the Mombasa court acquitted Swaleh allowing him to walk free despite all the allegations levelled against him.
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Swaleh has also in the past faced money laundering charges and jailed for ten years at the Shimo La Tewa Prison. He would later be acquitted and released from prison.
The suspected drug baron’s death comes barely a month after the national government through interior CS Kithure Kindiki indicated that it was scaling up the war against drugs at the Coast.