NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, DEC 14
An international drug racket has been busted by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The NCB had seized Rs. 1300 crore worth of narcotics from the arrested nine-member gang on Saturday, officials said.
The anti-narcotics agency said it had seized largest consignment of cocaine in the country, at 20 Kgs, from a drugs syndicate spread across Delhi, the national capital region, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, with global links in Australia, Canada, the US, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Columbia, Malaysia and Nigeria on Friday.
Officials said that the preliminary investigations revealed that five Indians, an American, an Indonesian and two Nigerians have been arrested in this operation.
The syndicate used India as global base and transit point for cocaine consignments, officials said.
The seized drug in India has international value of Rs 100 crore and the total worth of the seizure effected from this gang is Rs 1,300 crore.
The source of 55 kg of cocaine and 200 kg of methamphetamine that was seized in Australia has also been unearthed as part of this operation, officials said.
