Kenya, UAE and Mozambique Signs Extradition Treaties
Kenya has signed extradition treaties with United Arab Emirates and Mozambique.
The signing of extradition treaties between Kenya and the United Arab Emirates and Mozambique was given the Cabinet’s approval on Monday.
Extradition is the legal procedure by which one state hands over a person to another state for criminal prosecution or punishment for crimes committed within the jurisdiction of the receiving state.
This will allow Kenyans convicted in those two nations to serve their sentences back home, where they are closer to the support of their families, Cabinet remarked at its meeting on Monday.
“Cabinet considered and approved the signing of the Extradition Agreement between the government of the Republic of Kenya and the Government of the United Arab Emirates and the Extradition Agreement between the government of the Republic of Kenya and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique,” Cabinet said in a dispatch.
According to the accords, people who break the law in the other country may be extradited from one partner country to the other to participate in legal procedures or to complete their final sentences of imprisonment.
Extraditions are normally made possible through a bilateral or multilateral treaty, while some nations will extradite criminals in the absence of a treaty.
The most notable instance of the treaty’s use to date is the extradition of the Akasha brothers, Baktash, 41, and Ibrahim, 29.
Along with Gulam Hussein, a Pakistani national, and Vijaygiri Goswami, an Indian businessman accused of overseeing the narcotics operations of the Akasha group, the brothers were extradited to the US in January 2017.
The state petitioned the High Court to have the accused extradited to face narcotics charges in the US despite a lower court’s decision to ban their extradition.
After a protracted judicial struggle, the brothers were eventually taken away.
Before US District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan in October 2018, Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha both entered guilty pleas to seven criminal offenses.
The accusations included conspiring to bring the substances into the United States as well as distributing heroin and methamphetamine.
Ibrahim and Baktash were sentenced to 23 and 25 years in prison after admitting guilt.
