The High Court has ordered the forfeiture of multi-million-shillings assets linked to the late Yusuf Ahmed Swaleh, a notorious drug trafficker once nicknamed "Candy Rain".
Swaleh, widely believed to have inherited the Akasha drug empire at the Kenyan Coast, amassed illicit fortune through years of involvement in international drug trafficking.
Among the properties the court has ordered to be forfeited to the government are more than Sh2 million held in three accounts and four parcels of land in Kilifi County.
The court's decision was delivered by Justice Patrick Otieno, who concluded that the assets were proceeds of crime, acquired through illegal drug trade.