Cops bust cocaine factory in south Delhi house; 8 arrested
gurugram, June 21 -- The Gurugram police crime branch busted a cocaine manufacturing factory running from a four-storey residential building at Ram Colony in Chhatarpur, south Delhi and arrested eight people including seven foreign nationals, police said on Friday.
At least 3kg of manufactured cocaine and raw materials procured through the deep web, estimated to be worth more than Rs.10 crore in the international market, were seized from the factory, they added.
"The factory was operating for the last one-and-a-half years and was supplying narcotics across India and to other countries including Nepal," said a police officer associated with the case.
The accused were identified as Vimal Pahadi, who is from Pokhara in Nepal, Lal Kothari, who is from Aizawl in Mizoram, and Ugochukmv John alias David, Nnajiofor Peter Nmaemeka, Onuchukwu Henry, Ojukwa Ifenya, Friday Tobias Chikwu, and Okolie Romanus, all Nigerian nationals. Only Romanus had a valid business visa as he used to frequently fly abroad while the student or the business visa of the other Nigerian nationals had expired, police said.
Romanus was the mastermind of the operation and Pahadi used to visit Gurugram to take the manufactured drugs to Nepal, said Sandeep Kumar, public relations officer of Gurugram police. "Kothari, a woman, was used by the gang as a delivery agent for supplying drugs to various locations in India," he said.
Investigators said that 42 mobile phones, three electronic weighing machines, eight packing packets, six bundles of tapes, Nigerian passports and Rs.7,500 were recovered from the accused.
Pahadi was the first one to be nabbed with almost 1.17kg of drugs including 116 grams of cocaine from a hotel in Gurugram Sector 39 on Monday on the basis of an intelligence input....
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