DRI apprehends Liberian national with cocaine worth Rs 35 crore
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has apprehended a Liberian national who arrived from Sierra Leone at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai on Friday.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has apprehended a Liberian national who arrived from Sierra Leone at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai on Friday.
Four people were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and 80 kg of cocaine worth around Rs 900 crores was seized from them in the West and Outerwest areas of the national capital.
Now scientists have uncovered what exactly is in cocaine that makes it such a dreaded narcotic substance.
The action by the central probe agency came on the basis of a reliable input which said that the alleged person was travelling on a flight from Doha to New Delhi.
Acting on specific intelligence, an Indian national, who arrived in the morning of 22 March from Raxaul, Bihar, in a train at Anand Vihar Railway Station, Delhi, was intercepted and 92 pale yellow capsules containing white powdery substance were recovered.
A consignment of 234 grams of cocaine was seized from the accused who arrived from Addis Ababa.
The Mumbai zonal unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 500 grams of cocaine worth Rs 5 crore from wooden showpieces that arrived at the Courier Terminal in Mumbai from Costa Rica. Subsequently, a man and a woman were arrested, said officials on Tuesday.
Israeli authorities have arrested three United Nations workers trying to smuggle liquid cocaine into the country on Sunday in the guise of perfume-making kits. The arrests were made at the Jordan River Customs House along the northern area of the border with Jordan near Beit Shean.
According to a customs official, the seized cocaine was found ingeniously concealed in a special cavity made in her footwear.
The official said that they thoroughly checked the luggage and recovered a white powder material. She had concealed it in the false bottom cavity of her trolley suitcase.
