Days after big drug bust in Bengaluru, CCB seizes 100 grams of MDMA
India
Published: Thursday, December 24, 2020, 8:30 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 23: Three drug peddlers including a Nigerian national have been arrested in Bengaluru.
The Central Crime Branch has seized 100 grams of MDMA worth around Rs 5 lakh. The CCB has also seized a car, bike and cash.
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The development comes close on the heels of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Bangalore Zonal Unit seizing 3,000 units of Yellow and Grey coloured polls of MDMA (610) grams from a parcel at Foreign Post Office, Bangalore.
The consignment was concealed in layers of table cloth. 2 persons including a women arrested in the case.
Two Nigerians Arrested With 3, 000 Ecstasy Pills, Cocaine In India
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Express News Service
BENGALURU : Foreigners in India who have been arrested for their involvement in criminal activities have also been booked under the Passport Act after law enforcement agencies found that their passports were fake. According to sources, in the two recent contraband drug haul cases in the City by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The passport of two Nigerians, B Onovo and C Okwor, who were arrested last month under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for allegedly smuggling pseudoephedrine, a controlled substance, were reportedly fake, said a source.
The source added that in the recent drug bust case involving smuggling of MDMA and cocaine, the passports and even visas of the two accused Kenyan nationals, Ramla Shedafa Nancy and Emmanuel Michael, were allegedly fake. They have no official documents and have been living in a rented house in Bengaluru North without a rental agreement, said the source.
Express News Service
BENGALURU : In a major crackdown on the supply of contraband narcotic and psychotropic drugs in the city, the Bengaluru Zonal Unit (BZU) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), has seized MDMA pills and cocaine worth an estimated Rs 55 lakh in the grey market.
Bengaluru Zonal Unit director Amit Ghawate, said that on credible inputs from Customs officials in Bengaluru, the NCB had seized 3,000 high grade MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) pills weighing 610gm and 235gm of cocaine from the foreign post office in the city. The NCB has arrested two alleged Kenyan nationals - Ramla Shedafa Nancy and Emmanuel Michael. They had come to India on student and tourist visas and were allegedly found peddling contraband drugs. The NCB has seized their passports, which prima facie, look fake, said the officer.
Two Nigerian nationals, including a woman, have been arrested here on charges of drug peddling and 3,000 ecstasy pills and cocaine, received from the Netherlands and Ethiopia through postal parcel service, seized by the Narcotic Control Bureau, the central agency said on Tuesday. Acting on intelligence inputs, a team of NCB officials arrested Ramla Shedafa Nancy and Emmanuel Michael when they arrived to collect the parcels at the Foreign Post Office here on December 18, a release from the agency said. A total of 3,000 yellow and grey coloured ecstasy pills, totally weighing 610 gms and hidden in layers of table cloth in the parcels.
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