A British aristocrat who confronted 30 years in an African jail after being accused of smuggling cocaine price thousands and thousands of kilos is ready to have the case towards him sensationally dropped this week.
In keeping with a bombshell doc obtained by The Mail on Sunday, Kenya's anti-narcotics unit has urged the nation's directorate of public prosecution (DPP) to drop the case towards Jack Marrian at a listening to in Nairobi on Wednesday.
Mr Marrian, grandson of the sixth Earl Cawdor and nephew of the present Earl, was charged by Kenyan police after cocaine price £four.5 million was present in a cargo of sugar belonging to his firm in July.
Jack Marrian was charged by Kenyan police after cocaine price £four.5 million was present in a cargo of sugar belonging to his firm in July
The tip to his lengthy ordeal comes after The Mail on Sunday uncovered the weak point of the case towards him in a globe-spanning sequence of investigations. We revealed how US drug enforcement company workers and police in Spain had adopted the cargo from Brazil to Valencia, and have been sure that Mr Marrian knew nothing of the cocaine.
Final evening Mr Marrian welcomed the information, saying he felt 'pleasure' on the prospect of spending Christmas together with his household, free from the concern of jail.
Mr Marrian stated he felt assured of acquittal for the primary time since his arrest in a daybreak raid on his house in an prosperous suburb of the Kenyan capital.
The 31-year-old businessman, a recent of the Duchess of Cambridge at Marlborough Faculty, added: 'That is the primary constructive information I've heard throughout my complete ordeal.
'It fills me with pleasure to think about sharing this with my household within the lead-up to Christmas. If this injustice had continued, I stood to lose my freedom for the remainder of my life, and my household would have been destroyed.'
Mr Marrian's lawyer stated the DPP's workplace had confirmed that that they had obtained the letter requesting the withdrawal of expenses towards his consumer.
The letter implies that the rationale for the investigation being dropped is that they're awaiting additional info from overseas. Nonetheless, a DEA supply in Nairobi stated the reference to 'additional intelligence from Brazil and Valencia' was meaningless and that the medication operation had already been absolutely investigated, and Mr Marrian vindicated.
The Mail on Sunday found that just about 100 kilos of cocaine have been loaded on to a ship within the Brazilian port of Santos by a South American crime syndicate. The medication have been meant to be unloaded in Valencia, Spain, by gang members.
However they didn't take away the cocaine from the ship, and it sailed on to Kenya in a container ordered by Mr Marrian's firm, Mshale Commodities. The medication have been then seized by police in Mombasa.
One agent stated: 'We knew earlier than it landed that this cargo was by no means meant for Jack Marrian or any firm in Kenya. It had been ignored and missed by the prison gang in Spain, then sailed on to Mombasa by way of Oman.'
US drug enforcement company workers and police in Spain had adopted the cargo from Brazil to Valencia, and have been sure that Mr Marrian knew nothing of the cocaine
Stories compiled by the DEA and handed to Kenyan police included proof from Brazilian and Spanish police which said that 'the recipient of the transport container would haven't any information of its contents'.
Regardless of that, Mr Marrian and Mshale clearing agent Roy Mwanthi have been charged with smuggling narcotics.
Till now, prosecution attorneys have refused at hand over DEA stories that might clear them.
Mr Marrian's subsequent look was scheduled for subsequent month however that's prone to change after Wednesday's software to magistrates to withdraw the costs, permitting him to stroll free.
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