Baktash Akasha (L) and his brother Ibrahim Akasha (R) [File/Standard] Briton Muhammad Asif Hafeez, jailed recently by the US for orchestrating an international drug trafficking empire, had close links with the notorious Akasha brothers in Mombasa. The New York court convicted Hafeez, aka Sultan, of conspiring to import heroin and hashish into the US. He was arrested in the UK on August 25, 2017, and extradited to the US in 2023. Described by the US prosecution as a ‘puppet master’ of a global criminal enterprise that stretched across several continents, Hafeez presented himself as a reputable business mogul and had pleaded not guilty to the offence.…