Last Updated on December 15, 2022 by The Health Master
HYDERABAD: The Rachakonda police, busted an international narcotics peddling racket by arresting two drug peddlers after seizing 8.5 kg of pseudoephedrine, which is worth `9 crores in the international market.
According to Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagawat, on a tip-off, sleuths of the Special Operations Team of the Malkajgiri Zone and Nacharam police busted the racket.
The names of the arrested are Mohammad Kasim (31) and Rasuldeen (39).
They are involved in the clandestine supply of pseudoephedrine (a narcotic control substance) through an international courier agency from Hyderabad to Australia and New Zealand.
The arrested persons are from the Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu.
They, along with absconding accused Fareed, Faisal from Pune, and Raheem, a native of Chennai, had been supplying drugs from Pune and Hyderabad that were concealed as air cargo to Australia and New Zealand.
Bhagwat said that they used to book the drug parcels at international courier services located in Pune and Hyderabad by concealing the pseudoephedrine in cloth boxes, bangle boxes, and baby-wear gift packs by providing false Aadhaar, Pan cards as address and identity proof.
On Sunday, the SOT, Malkajgiri Zone team along with Nacharam police raided a lodge, under the jurisdiction of Nacharam police station and seized 8.5 kg of pseudoephedrine, Rs 4,02,500 in cash, and incriminating material from their possession.
During the interrogation of the accused, it was established that the duo received pseudoephedrine from Raheem.
They put 200 grams of it in plastic covers, hid it in the inner layers of the cloth boxes along with clothes, and transported it to Australia and New Zealand through courier parcel agencies, viz., GVR International Courier Service, Hyderabad, and Indofine Express Service, Pune, by concealing the contraband in different items.
They confessed that they had so far shipped 15 consignments, which included 70 kg of pseudoephedrine, to Australia and New Zealand in 2022.
Likewise, four days ago, they received the pseudoephedrine drug from Raheem.
They came to Hyderabad in a bus on Sunday morning and took a lodge with the intent to pack and transport the drug to the addresses provided by Raheem but the police swooped in on them before they could ship them out.
On examination of the boxes, a plastic cover was found to contain a white powder-like substance sandwiched between the two layers of the cardboard box.
Twenty-three such cardboard boxes were found and they contained about 4.6 kg and three plastic covers contained 3.9 kg of pseudoephedrine.
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