THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has taken to the Court of
Appeal the trial involving five people, including a resident of Iran,
who were convicted of trafficking in drugs and jailed for 25 years and
fined 7bn/-.
In his appeal, the DPP is challenging the sentence imposed by the
High Court on the convicts, Kileo Bakari, alias Kileo, Yahaya Zumo
Makame, Salum Mohamed Mparakasi, Said Ibrahim Hamis, who are all
Tanzanians and Mohammadal Gholamghader Pourdar, a resident of Iran.
"The DPP appeals to the Court of Appeal against the decision of
Justice Kipenka Mussa given in Tanga on August 10, 2012, where the
respondents were convicted of trafficking narcotic drugs," part of a
document in the appeal records reads.
Judge Kipenka Mussa, who heard the case before the High Court in the
City of Tanga, having convicted the said persons, sentenced them to pay a
total fine of 7,191,822,000/- in addition to the custodian sentence
imposed on them.
The said 7,191,822,000/- is three times the market value of the drugs
indicated in the charge sheet. This means that each of the convicts was
condemned to pay 1,438,364,400/-. The convicts were jointly charged
with a sixth person, Bakari Kileo, alias Mambo, a fisherman.
Mambo was acquitted for lack of evidence. During the trial, the
prosecution had alleged that between April 1, 2009 and March 8, 2010, at
various places in Dar es Salaam, Tanga City and various unknown places
within the United Republic of Tanzania and the Islamic Republic of Iran,
the convicts conspired to commit an offence of trafficking in narcotic
drugs.
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