With the seizure of cocaine worth Rs five crore per kilogram across the globe, particularly in Sri Lanka, Port Elizabeth, and Panana, over the last two years showing India as its destination, it now seems that fiscal capital Mumbai is emerging as the new transit point for cocaine.
This as the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has on the basis of backtrack drug investigations warned Mumbai is gradually emerging as the cocaine capital of India, as per a report by Hindustan Times.
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This comes amid assumptions that India, being one of the biggest manufacturers of potassium per magnate, may be used to process raw coca paste into the lethal drug in the wake of the international drug enforcement agencies cracking down on cocoa-producing nationals in the South American nations.
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A report published in Hindustan Times attributed top NCB officials as saying the backtrack drug investigations have now confirmed that no less than 300kg of cocaine (worth ₹1500 crore in the international market) landed in Mumbai in December 2018 through a syndicate with links in India, Australia, and Canada.
The NCB officials have been carrying out raids in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai areas in connection with the ongoing onslaught against the drug mafia.