Codeine syrup nexus: Father of fugitive kingpin held in Kolkata
Lucknow/Varanasi, Dec. 1 -- In the second major breakthrough in the Rs.100-crore illegal Codeine-based cough syrup nexus, the Sonbhadra police on Sunday arrested alleged smuggler Bhola Prasad Jaiswal, father of the fugitive kingpin Shubham Jaiswal, from Kolkata, West Bengal.
This arrest comes three days after Amit Kumar Singh alias Amit Tata, resident of Jaunpur, was taken into custody from Lucknow on November 27, for allegedly being a key figure in operating the cough syrup nexus.
Bhola Prasad was preparing to flee abroad to join his son Shubham Jaiswal, who is stated to have fled to Dubai along with his family and two associates after the scam came to light, officials familiar with the matter said.
The arrest is the latest development in the widening probe into an interstate pharmaceutical-diversion racket that investigators said supplied controlled substances to Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh.
A joint team of Sonbhadra Police, SIT and SOG, led by additional superintendent of police Tribhuvan Nath Tripathi, arrested Bhola, resident of Varanasi, from Kolkata. P2...
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