Jaffer Sadiq has made 4 movies to this point within the South movie business.
New Delhi:
A movie producer has been arrested for allegedly smuggling medication price over Rs 2,000 crore overseas. Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK functionary who has labored in South’s movie business, was arrested following a four-month manhunt, mentioned the Narcotics Management Bureau on Saturday.
The NCB has named Sadiq the ”kingpin” of the India-Australia-New Zealand medication trafficking community. He has smuggled Rs 2,000-crore medication to Australia and New Zealand, it mentioned.
”He despatched 3,500 kg pseudoephedrine overseas over 45 occasions,” mentioned a prime official.
Sadiq has made 4 movies to this point along with his final one anticipated to launch this month.
His arrest got here per week after officers seized methamphetamine price Rs 180 crore from two rail passengers in Madurai and a dump yard in Chennai. The medication have been to be smuggled into Sri Lanka.
A complete of 36 kg was seized from the passenger couple and one other 6 kg from Kodungaiyur dump yard in Chennai on February 29, officers mentioned. The couple was detained after the seizure.
Methamphetamine, also referred to as ”ice” or ”crystal meth”, is a extremely addictive psychostimulant drug that reveals highly effective euphoric results much like these of cocaine and has life-threatening penalties, the Directorate of Income Intelligence had mentioned.
Following the drug bust, BJP state chief Okay Annamalai had lashed out on the ruling DMK and mentioned Tamil Nadu has turn into the drug capital of India.
”Worldwide druglord and a DMK functionary Jaffar Sadiq is on the run. The NCB is raiding DMK functionaries’ institutions. Rs 1,200 crore price en path to Tamil Nadu caught off the coast of Gujarat, and at this time 30 kgs of methamphetamine have been caught in transit in Madurai by the Directorate of Income Intelligence,” he had mentioned in a web-based publish.
Three others related to this worldwide drug syndicate have been not too long ago arrested by the NCB from Delhi. The US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation can also be cooperating with the Indian company within the medication probe.