We made millions of dollars.”A South African, David Armstrong, was named in the US court papers as being a rival to the Akasha brothers.Baktash told me David Armstrong was manufacturing mandrax tablet in Mombasa, in one of the politician’s house.”
Goswami alleged Pinky transported drugs for “Baktash, for David Armstrong, and many others who sell the drugs from East Africa to South Africa”. Subsequently, Pinky contacted Baktash and threatened to take revenge over what they had done to Armstrong.So myself, Baktash and Ibrahim, we sat down and we said this is going too far now, we should have Pinky killed,” Goswami alleged.First of all, Pinky was threatening us; second, we wanted to have him killed so we can put an impression in South African drug market we are not here to play.”I offered Ajay Goswami half a ton of abba if his people can kill Pinky in return,” Goswami alleged.
But Goswami did not provide the abba as he felt he would not make money out of the plan – which angered Baktash.Goswami then told someone known as Mazaghadi – “my associate who I deal with him in drugs in South Africa” – about what Baktash had done. Goswami testified he had been asked to arrange the assassination of a “terrorist” in Thailand and “two or three” in Pakistan and that he had agreed to help.
The defence has portrayed Goswami as always having been exceptionally conniving – it was put to him that decades ago he tried to ingratiate himself with influential figures in South Africa, among them politicians including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, to try to gain protection from punishment for his drug dealings.In 2014 he reportedly told the, “I knew some of the ANC leaders and ministers when I was in South Africa from our days in Zambia.
One said that mandrax consignments were being smuggled, sometimes unaccompanied, in the cargo holds of planes on behalf of men who police suspected were linked to Goswami. Khoza has always denied these claims, though he reportedly was arrested in Zambia on suspicion of mandrax possession in 1983. According to the bookAs probes into Goswami and his associates in South Africa developed, some suspects were murdered and in one case a suspect disappeared, an incident which remains unsolved.
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