Alleged drug
lord, Eneh Wilfried Amobi, has been apprehended by security operatives in India
in possession of cocaine worth as much as $1.4million.
Amobi was
nabbed at a suburban railway station in Mumbai.
Popular
newspaper, The Hindustan Times, said a team from the Narcotics Control Bureau
(NCB) caught him after a tip-off by a ticket checker.
According to
an official, 47yrs old Amobi was caught with a large quantity of contraband.
“Amobi said
he was as a tourist and as he wanted $200 to return home, he offered to smuggle
the drug,” Kumar Sanjay Jha, NCB zonal director, Mumbai and Goa region said.
The drugs,
weighing 1.3kg, were concealed in courier packets in his bag.
“As foreign
nationals are asked to show passports even for domestic flights, couriers
prefer trains,” said the NCB zonal director.
The agency
said Amobi was just one among the many couriers entrusted by a city-based
cartel to smuggle the drugs into the city.
“We suspect
that at least four people were involved. The packets changed hands at various
railway stations to dodge authorities,” he said.
According to
records, the suspects booked tickets in first class AC, second AC and AC 3
tier.
Unfortunately,
in a report last week, The Hindustan Times disclosed that Nigerians topped the
list of foreigners arrested for drug smuggling in Mumbai.
- Most of
them are sentenced to death, yet our guys are still on it in their desperation
to live large.
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