By KEVIN J. KELLEYMore by this AuthorThe sentencing of confessed drug trafficker Baktash Akasha has been postponed to July 25 following a prosecution move to present evidence linking him to the murder of a drug dealer in South Africa. Judge Victor Marrero, who has been presiding over the Akasha case in a federal court in New York, agreed on Wednesday to reschedule the sentencing that had been set for April 19. Prosecutors maintain that Baktash, along with Ibrahim and their associate Vijay Goswami, decided to have Pinky murdered after he threatened the Akasha brothers and Mr Goswami. It is believed that Mr Goswami agreed last year to cooperate with the prosecution. According to prosecutors, Mr Goswami told an undercover US agent that he had sent flowers to Pinky’s funeral and had called another South African drug dealer to say he was “sorry about your right hand man”.

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2019 18:33 UTC