Film Producer Scripts Rs 2,000-Crore Drug Story, Smuggles Meth Chemical

New Delhi:

Being part of the profitable film enterprise was not sufficient for a Tamil movie producer, who selected to mastermind a drug racket that earned his gang practically Rs 2,000 crore in simply three years. 

Officers from the Narcotics Management Bureau mentioned Data was acquired from customs authorities in New Zealand and the police in Australia that giant portions of pseudoephedrine, a key chemical used to make methamphetamine, had been being despatched to the international locations hid in desiccated coconut powder or well being mixes.  

Methamphetamine, often known as meth or crystal meth, is a drug that’s in excessive demand worldwide, and sells for practically Rs 1.5 crore a kg in Australia and New Zealand. 

“After inputs from the US Drug Enforcement Administration indicated that the consignments had been being despatched from Delhi, a joint group of the Delhi police particular cell and the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) was constituted. After 4 months of intensive technical and area surveillance, it was learnt that these operatives had been in Delhi once more and had been making an attempt to ship one other consignment to Australia,” mentioned Gyaneshwar Singh, Deputy Director Basic, NCB.

Officers mentioned surveillance led them to a godown in West Delhi’s Basai Darapur, the place members of the gang had been caught making an attempt to hide pseudoephedrine in a multigrain meals combine to smuggle it. Three members of the gang had been arrested and 50 kg of the chemical was seized. 

An official mentioned sustained interrogation of the lads, who’re from Tamil Nadu, revealed that the gang had despatched 45 consignments previously three years, including as much as 3,500 kg of pseudoephedrine, which is price over Rs 2,000 crore within the worldwide market. 

“The mastermind of the nexus has been recognized as a Tamil movie producer, who’s on the run. We try exhausting to arrest him in order that we are able to discover the supply of the pseudoephedrine,” an official mentioned. 

The NCB has additionally reached out to New Zealand and Australian authorities to arrest the individuals who acquired the consignments in these international locations.