Bashir Mohamed: Autopsy Shows Somali-American Businessman was Tortured, Strangled
An autopsy on the body of Somali-American businessman Mohamud Bashir Mohamed has revealed he was strangled to death.
Government pathologist Johannes Oduor led the postportem in the presence of two other independent pathologists, family lawyer Charles Madowo, DCI detectives, and a family representative.
The post-mortem took slightly over an hour at Umash Funeral Home on Monday, May 24.
The family lawyer Mr Madowo said Mohamud Bashir was tortured before he was strangled and his body thrown into River Nyamindi in Mwea, Kirinyaga County.
The body of the 36-year-old businessman also had burn wounds and injuries inflicted by a blunt object.
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Bashir was related to top Somali government officials and moved money to them, police and intelligence sources say.
Kenya and Somalia have disagreed on major issues including the miraa trade, the maritime border in the Indian Ocean and Somaliland.
Slain Somali-American businessman Bashir Mohamed Mohamud was on the intelligence system radar for receiving and sending huge sums of money to Somalia.
Kenyan government officials said he had first received millions of shillings from a top Somali government official before he channelled it back to various different banks.
The money, according to officials, sometimes moved through foreign accounts before ending up in Mogadishu, which raised suspicions.
Somali businessman Bashir Mohammed died from strangulation; postmortem results have revealed.
The postmortem was conducted by Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor on Monday morning at the Umash funeral home in Nairobi.
And while addressing the media thereafter, family lawyer Charles Madowo said the 36-year-old’s body showed signs of torture, including multiple blunt object hits on the head and burn wounds.
“There was also trauma on the head consistent with being hit by a blunt object, there were burns on his body and there was also signs of torture on his toe and nails,” Madowo said.
Further, the family through the lawyers have said they will request the office of the DPP to institute an inquest probe to determine the circumstances of the death of their kin.
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