Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that NCB (Drug Control Bureau) has busted a global drug cartel, arrested eight people and started cracks against the ring against four continents and 10 countries in 10 countries.
About one and a half months ago, NCB started at Mandi Ghar in New Delhi, Operation Max Max, a suspect in the US, illegal factories in Australia, an illegal call center in Udupi, and an identity of a money launder in the US with a UAE-based kingpin.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs explained to the investigation trail, saying that on May 25, the agency’s operational unit stopped a car near Mandi House (Bengali Market) in Delhi, with two BPharma students arrested with 3.7 kg tramdol tablets. Traumdol has been informed as a drug under the NDPS Act by the Ministry of Finance in April 2018.
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“The arrested persons confessed to operating a seller profile on a major Indian B2B platform, from where they sold pharmaceutical pills to customers in America, Europe and Australia. Due to interrogation, due to two chemists in Rorake, Mayur Vihar, after the arrest of a major colleague in the countryside, who reveals a contact for a contact in Karnat,” Said.
In Udupi, the NCB team found a data trail of these Indian citizens, 29 packages for delivery, 18, 18 and 1 each to send Estonia, Spain and Switzerland – after which DEA, Interpol and Australian officials were sent.
An NCB official who asked not to take the name, said, “The gang did not ship medicines within India. They had many ratipers in various countries. After receiving controlled drugs, these restructure sent it inside their countries. We are checking the sources of tablets in India.”
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A PIB statement said that working on NCB’s information, the US DEA tracked the data trail of the US Consignment and arrested a bulk re-shipper and money launder in Alabama as well as with a huge race of controlled drugs. Encrypted communication on encrypted communication platforms such as telegram depends on the cryptocurrency payment, papail, western union and uses anonymous international drop ships to detect.
In Australia, authorities destroyed a cladstine pill manufacturing unit. The NCB official said, “Controlled drugs like Traumadol and others were also being manufactured there. Their Indian counterparts were taking orders in bulk and coordinating with the owner for supply within Australia,” NCB official said.
Home Minister Amit Shah said on X, “Congratulations to the NCB and all agencies for cutting a global drug cartel. Investigation gave a stellar example of multi-agency coordination, resulting in 8 arrests and 5 consignments, which triggers Crackdowns in the US and Australia and operates our agencies. The unnamant dopper used by these miracles.
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Responding to Shah’s post, the US embassy in India said, “Thank you for helping Americans against illegal drugs and saving American life,” said the US embassy.
