Several Judges and Magistrates have written to the DCI to arrest those linking them to the Akasha’s.
This is after a letter circulated online and purported to be from Interpol Head office.
In the letter several Judges and Magistrates, Politicians and businessmen are said to be wanted by Interpol for prosecution and others for questioning.
The letter went on to say that those listed had been mentioned by the Akasha’s as people whom they traded with -in their drug business.
The Judges and magistrates through Ongola and Wambola advocates have written to the DCI director George Kinoti and DPP Nordin Haji to investigate the source of the letter.
Judges Dora Chepkwony, Chacha Mwita, Stephen Riechi , Hellen Omondi , Justice Francis Tuiyot Hedwig Ong’udi, Msagha Mbogholi, Lydia Achode, Wilfrida Okwany and Maxwell Gicheru were listed as complainants in the lawyers letter.
Magistrates Kennedy Bidali and Bryan Khaemba also complained.
“Our clients are judicial officers serving in different ranks and stations in the Republic of Kenya. They are, therefore, critical drivers of an important arm and function of the state — the judicial function,” Lawyer Elisha Ongola said.
The lawyer added that in the recent past, there have been multiple instances of cyber crime by persons unknown to his clients purporting to link them to various persons of concern to try and link them to crime both locally and beyond Kenya.
In the letter, the lawyer said these claims are hurting the judicial officers.
“It is, therefore, necessary that your office carries out thorough and in depth investigations to establish the sources of these publications and hold the perpetrators to account. These sustained intimidation, humiliation and scandalization of judicial officers and, consequently, the justice system, is dangerous,” the lawyer said.
On 16th August 2019 Baktash Akasha was sentenced to 25 years in jail and fined USD 100,000 (Ksh. 10 million) by a New York Court.
The Akasha brothers pleaded guilty to 6 counts of drug trafficking and illegal use of firearms, charges that usually result in life imprisonment.
Several people have complained that the Akasha’s were given a lenient sentence.