Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) ₹25-crore cocaine seized

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KOCHI, January 01, 2018 21:27 IST
Updated: January 01, 2018 21:27 IST

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NCB sleuths makes the biggest ever drug seizure in State

About three weeks after it picked up a Venezualan national who carried about 1 kg of cocaine in his tummy, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths on Monday effected the biggest ever seizure of cocaine in the State and arrested a Filipino woman in this connection.

According to officials, Jhonna De Torres, 36, who had landed at the international airport here from Muscat was found carrying 4.5 kilograms of cocaine in her checked-in baggage. The woman was travelling from Sao Paulo to Adis Ababa and from there to Kochi via Muscat.

During an examination, officials found the contraband, worth around ₹25 crore in the international market, being concealed inside a wrapped trolley bag.

Preliminary investigations suggested that the woman had been acting as a carrier of an international drug cartel having strong roots in Latin America. The narcotic drug, which originated from Sao Paulo in Brazil, was destined to be delivered to an unidentified person outside the airport.

Further probe is now under way to identify the receiver.

According to the sleuths, there has been a perceptible rise in the frequency of drug seizures being reported from Kochi of late.

The sleuths had foiled a similar attempt to smuggle cocaine through the international airport and arrested a Paraguay national about one-and-half- months ago.

Interestingly in all the three cases, the contraband had originated from Sao Paulo.

Besides the seizure of cocaine, the enforcement agencies here had seized 19 kg of ephedrine, while it being trafficked to Selengor in Malaysia through the air cargo complex here. Similarly, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence had foiled an attempt to smuggle 55 kg of ephedrine through the airport here in August while the Customs sleuths also seized about 14.5 kg of the substance from a South African national here.

 

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IPS officer Abhay takes charge as new Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau

The 1986-batch police officer of Odisha cadre took charge as the Director General (DG) at the NCB headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: January 3, 2018 8:48 pm

IPS officer Abhay has taken charge as the new chief of the of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), officials today said. The 1986-batch police officer of Odisha cadre took charge as the Director General (DG) at the NCB headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday, they said.


Abhay, who goes by a single name, was till now working in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) as Additional DG (Training). He has had a seven-year stint with the CBI in the past apart from heading the crime branch and special branch of the Odisha Police.


The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister, had recently approved his appointment to the post till November 18, 2019, which is his scheduled stint in central deputation.


The post of the NCB DG was lying vacant since April last year when the incumbent R R Bhatnagar was appointed as the CRPF DG.


Special Secretary in the home ministry Rina Mitra was handling the additional charge of NCB DG since then. The NCB, under the command of the Union Home Ministry, is the apex coordinating and enforcement agency in the country against drug crimes and for countering drugs abuse.