Jack Marrian, whose mother is Emma Clare Campbell of Cawdor, denied the charges stemming from the $3million seizure of drugs found hidden in containers of sugar on a Venezuela-flagged ship on Friday.
The businessman, managing director of Kenya and Uganda-based Mshale Commodities, was remanded in custody pending a bail hearing on Monday along with a Kenyan suspect, Roy Francis Mwanthi, who also denies the charges.
British sugar trader Jack Marrian (pictured) has appeared in a Kenyan court charged with trafficking 220lbs of cocaine from Brazil to the port of Mombasa
Jack Marrian denied the charges stemming from the $3million seizure of drugs found hidden in containers of sugar on a Venezuela-flagged ship on Friday
Marrian was born into the Clan Campbell of Cawdor, a line of Scottish nobility.
His mother is the 58-year-old daughter of the late artist Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, the sixth Earl Cawdor and once the custodian of Medieval Cawdor castle near Nairn in Scotland.
Marrian’s father David is said to have confirmed his son was arrested but did not add further comment when approached by the newspaper.
Three men including Jack Marrian, 30, were questioned in recent days by a special team of US anti-narcotics agents and their Kenyan counterparts following an Interpol tip-off about the shipment.
‘We are aware of speculation regarding an allegedly compromised shipment consigned to Mshale Commodities,’ a spokeswoman for Mshale told AFP.
‘We can confirm that Mshale’s managing director, Jack Marrian, is assisting the Kenyan authorities to provide them with whatever information they require,’ she added.
Three men including Jack Marrian (pictured) were questioned in recent days by a special team of US anti-narcotics agents and their Kenyan counterparts following an Interpol tip-off about the shipment
The businessman, who is managing director of Kenya and Uganda-based Mshale Commodities, was remanded in custody pending a bail hearing on Monday
Marrian’s grandfather was the late artist Hugh John Vaughan Campbell (pictured), the sixth Earl Cawdor
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