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Two Nigerian nationals travelling from Lagos arrested at Mumbai airport for trying to smuggle cocaine

UncategorizedTwo Nigerian nationals travelling from Lagos arrested at Mumbai airport for trying to smuggle cocaine
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Two Nigerian nationals travelling from Lagos arrested at Mumbai airport for attempting to smuggle cocaine. (Picture: Occasions Now)

Based on stories, surveillance was mounted by a crew of officers from DRI, MZU on the CSMI Airport. The 2 Nigerian nationals had been suspected to have hid NDPS substance by physique packing and therefore had been produced earlier than an Further Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace (ACMM), who ordered their medical examination. The medical take a look at confirmed that the 2 passengers had ingested capsules containing some substance.

The passengers reportedly purged a complete of 167 capsules over the interval of three days. The substance wrapped in these capsules examined constructive for cocaine. A complete of two.976 kg of cocaine has been recovered from these capsules and seized underneath NDPS Act, 1985. The illicit worldwide market worth of the contraband is about Rs. 29.76 crore.

Based mostly on intelligence that Narcotic substance could also be smuggled into India by two Nigerian nationals, who had been travelling from Lagos to Mumbai through Addis Ababa, surveillance was mounted by a crew of officers from DRI, MZU on the CSMI Airport. Each the passengers had been arrested and have been put underneath Judicial Custody. Additional investigation into the case is in progress.

Final month, the DRI officers additionally arrested an Indian nationwide on the Mumbai worldwide airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle over 2.5 kg of cocaine into the nation. Based on stories, 2.58 kg of cocaine within the type of cleaning soap bars was seized. It was valued above 25 crore.

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