Hafeez assumed driving part in int'l drug dealing network for more than twenty years, says US lawyer
December 15, 2024
NEW YORK/LONDON: Lahore gold dealer and Pakistani public Muhammad Asif Hafeez has confessed in the US to medicate dealing charges after he was blamed in a worldwide medications case likewise ensnaring Bollywood star Mumta Kulkarni and her better half Vicky Goswami, a Mandrax engineer from India who once itemized how he and his partners were dead set on overwhelming South Africa's medication exchange.
Damian Williams, the US Lawyer for the Southern Area of New York, has affirmed that Hafeez — likewise called the "King of Medications", "the huge chief" and "number one on the planet" by the US policing confessed in Manhattan government court to plotting to import heroin, methamphetamine, and ganja into the US.
He confessed under the steady gaze of US Justice Judge Stewart D Aaron and will be condemned by US Locale Judge Victor Marrero.
Initially from Lahore however based for the most part in Dubai and London, Hafeez was captured in London on August 25, 2017, and removed to the US on May 12, 2023.
He was detained at the Belmarsh Jail where this journalist met him and talked with him about his side of the confounded story.
He set up major areas of strength for a battle enduring six years however in the end his allure at the European Court of Basic freedoms was likewise dismissed and he was removed last year to the US. He had denied all charges and focused on he was a casualty of schemes.
US Lawyer Damian Williams said: "For over twenty years, Muhammad Asif Hafeez assumed a main part in a complex global medication dealing network that was liable for assembling and disseminating ton amounts of risky opiates to the US and all through the world. The supplication guarantees that one of the world's most productive medication dealers will be considered responsible for his wrongdoings."
As per the claims contained in prosecutions charging Hafeez, from 2013 through the date of his London capture in 2017, schemed with his co-litigants, Baktash Akasha Abdalla, Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, Gulam Hussein, and Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami to bring heroin into the US. Every one of these offenses conveys a most extreme sentence of life in jail and a compulsory least sentence of 10 years in jail.
Baktash was the head of a coordinated wrongdoing family in Kenya (the "Akasha Association"), which was liable for the creation and dispersion of ton amounts of opiates inside Kenya and all through Africa and kept an organization used to disseminate opiates for importation into the US.
During this examination, in October 2014, Ibrahim conveyed a one-kilogram heroin test, for the benefit of Hafeez and the Akasha Association, to secret sources acting at the course of the Medication Requirement Organization (DEA) in Nairobi, and, toward the beginning of November 2014, he conveyed 98 extra kilograms of heroin to the classified sources.
These examples were only a little part of the opiates that Hafeez disseminated with the Akasha Association; for sure, during this examination, Baktash flaunted in a recorded gathering that Hafeez had dispersed "tons" of opiates with his dad and the Akasha Association.
Baktash, Ibrahim, and Goswami were captured by Kenyan experts in November 2014 and removed to the US in 2017.
The US prosecution additionally claims that Hafeez has been associated with the medication exchange from around 1993 through 2017, purportedly contrived to bring weed and methamphetamine into the US.
Regarding this intrigue, Hafeez and co-schemers shipped multi-ton shipments of weed to Europe and North America.
According to somewhere in the range of 2013 and 2016, the US, Hafeez and certain co-plotters likewise looked to lay out a methamphetamine-creation office in Mozambique, which was expected to deliver methamphetamine available to be purchased in the US, Europe, and Australia.
Baktash, 47, and Ibrahim, 36, already conceded to planning to bring heroin and methamphetamine into the US.
Baktash was condemned on August 16, 2018, to 25 years in jail, and Ibrahim was condemned on January 10, 2020, to 23 years in jail.
Bollywood-connected Goswami affirmed in the US in 2019 about drug dealing.
A record of Goswami's declaration said he had recently met individuals, including delegates from the manufacturing plant, at an inn in Kenya. Goswami then, at that point, chose to turn into a coordinating indictment observer against all his previous assistants. He is as yet needed in India over the Solapur ephedrine production line case.
Attorneys and group of Hafeez said they can't remark on the liable request since there are "defensive orders" set up which disallow them.
