Detectives on Tuesday afternoon confi****ed ****** and *************** worth m***ions of sh***ings, which was destined for New Zealand and China.
The contraband ********* were found at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) concealed in a carton containing makeup kits. Investigations already commenced to nab t**se involved, according to a statement from the Directorate of C***inal Investigations (DCI).
The seizure could mark renewed efforts by smugglers to use Kenya as a transit point for ******* *********.
Last month, a Mombasa court found two people, Ahmed Bakari and Clement Bristol, ****** of *********** ****** intercepted in April 2015 while on transit in a luxury yatch. They were jailed for 10 years.
Five crew members were ******** with the ***** in the vessel that was travelling from Seychelles to Tanzania via Kenya.
Police said the ********, four Kenyans and a Seychellois, were part of an international ****-*********** syndicate.
The government later blew up the consignment using ********** on August 14, 2015. It was destroyed inside the Indian Ocean.
In April, Anti-********* police arrrested a man after he was found in possession of 25 kilogrammes of ****** with a street value of Ksh 25 m***ion at JKIA.
Recently, the Akasha brothers – Baktash Akasha and Ibrahim Akasha – pleaded ****** to **** *********** charges in New York. The two were ******** in Kenya and extradited to the US to face the charges.
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Meanwhile, the DCI working *****ly with officials on Tuesday ******** two ******** for being in possession of elephant tusks (weighing 13 kilogrammes) worth m***ions of sh***ings concealed in a manila sack. The two, Samuel Wa**me and H***ary Kiplangat, w** were ******** in Nakuru town, were set to be arraigned in court on Wednesday.
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