Search on for owner of drugs' ship

Kenyan police officers and their counterparts from United Kingdom’s Border Force are pursuing the owner of the luxurious tourist yacht that is moored at Mombasa port that is under drugs probe.

Some 10 packets of compressed heroin weighing 7.6 kg were found in the yacht on Monday.

The Standard has established that detectives want to interrogate the Briton over the drugs. The boat’s Seychellois captain and four Kenyans are held after drugs were found in a car impounded in Kilifi last week. The yacht had travelled from Seychelles via Dar es Salaam and then to Kilifi.

The detectives also want to find out whether the British man had sold the Singapore-registered yacht.

Last week, Mombasa police disclosed the British man’s identity and even claimed they had contacted him and that he was headed to Kenya, but we have since established no such thing happened.

Head of Anti-Narcotics Unit Hamisi Masa told The Standard that British detectives had joined the investigation, which he described as “wide and which might go beyond Kenya’s borders”.

Police said 10 packets heroin were worth Sh22 million.