The Telangana Police on Saturday arrested two Nigerian nationals, who are alleged to be part of a global illegal drug trade, and a forex agent involved in money laundering. The accused were not only indulging in the supply of various drugs like cocaine and MDMA in Hyderabad, and Bangalore and but also in the US, the police said.
The police also seized 15 grams of cocaine, 50 grams MDMA, cash of Rs 45,000 and other incriminating materials from the accused.
The arrested Nigerians have been identified as Ugwu Ikechukwu and Chukwu Ogbonna, according to Cyberabad Narcotic Police Station, Telangana Anti Narcotic Bureau (TGANB), Hyderabad. The forex agent has been identified as Mohammed Mateen, Proprietor of Fine Multiple Service, Old Malakpet, Hyderabad, the police said.
Ikechukwu is also known by the names Emma, Gaelle Musungay Ntumba, John Cole, Arnold and Roy, while Ogbonna also goes by nicknames Big Joe, Peace with You.
The police said the accused were assisting kingpin Ebuka Suzee who was also assisted by two more Nigerians — Chidiebere Ubah and Okafor Paul Chukwunweike alias Chuks who had customer base in the US — in the supply of drugs.
The police found out that Ebuka Suzee and his aides were supplying narcotic substances to their customers in the US.
“In order to get back the payments made by the US customers, on the instructions of Ebuka Suzee, Emma trapped US-based single women and took their bank account and credit card numbers and gave them to the customers in the US who used to deposit the money towards drug purchase in their accounts. Later Emma contacted Mohammed Mateen who provided some bank accounts of Indians staying in US by collecting account details from Anand Jain, Goyam Forex. The US women used to transfer the money through money transfer services and deposit in the US bank accounts of Indians and Mateen used to pay cash to Emma,” said Sandeep Shandilya, director of TGANB.
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The police have booked them under sections 8(c), 22(b), 22(c), 27(A), 29 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
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