Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A man accused of being a heroin kingpin linked to the Taliban was brought to the U.S. from Afghanistan to face federal drug trafficking charges, Manhattan prosecutors said.

Baz Mohammad is charged with conspiring to import more than $25 million worth of Afghan heroin into the U.S. He is the first man ever to be extradited from Afghanistan to the U.S., prosecutors said.

Mohammad ``is believed to have close ties to the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups in Afghanistan,'' U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia of the Southern District of New York said in a statement.

President Bush has identified Mohammad as one of the world's most-wanted drug kingpins, Garcia said. The federal indictment says the heroin was sold in the U.S. and other countries for tens of millions of dollars.

According to the indictment, Mohammad controlled opium fields in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. After the opium was harvested, he used laboratories in Afghanistan and Pakistan to process the opium into heroin, the indictment said.

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