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Pakistani National Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking Charges
NEW YORK, May 8, 2023
Muhammad Asif Hafeez, a 66-year-old Pakistani national, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to import heroin, methamphetamine, and hashish into the United States.
According to the allegations contained in indictments charging Hafeez and his co-defendants, Hafeez conspired with his co-defendants, Baktash Akasha Abdalla, Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, Gulam Hussein, and Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami to import heroin into the U.S. from at least 2013 through the date of his provisional arrest in 2017.
The defendant, Hafeez, served as one of the primary suppliers of narcotics to the Akasha Organization, an organized crime family in Kenya, which was responsible for the production and distribution of ton quantities of narcotics within Kenya and throughout Africa and maintained a network used to distribute narcotics for importation into the U.S.
During this investigation, in October 2014, Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla delivered a one-kilogram heroin sample, on behalf of Hafeez and the Akasha Organization, to confidential sources acting at the direction of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Nairobi, and, in early November 2014, Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla delivered 98 additional kilograms of heroin to the confidential sources.
Hafeez also conspired to import hashish and methamphetamine into the U.S. from at least 1993 through the date of his provisional arrest in 2017. In connection with this conspiracy, Hafeez and co-conspirators transported multi-ton shipments of hashish to Europe and North America.
The defendant, Hafeez, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero. He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Drug Trafficking|International Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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