Bengaluru:Karnataka Police department has discovered a narcotics factory here in the capital and seized Rs2 crore worth 4 kilogrammes of MDMA synthetic drugs on Thursday. A Nigerian national was taken into custody. The investigations revealed a well-established network operating in the city.
The banned MDMA crystals were placed inside shoes and sold in the city and other parts of the country. The accused also sent them to New Zealand and other countries via courier. Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner for Crime, claimed that the City Crime Branch (CCB) Narcotics wing sleuths have succeeded in detecting a narcotics drug manufacturing unit for the first time in the history of the state.
"So far drug users and drug peddlers are being arrested. The officers this time have detected a unit from where the drugs were manufactured and sent to foreign countries," he said. The Nigerian national was identified as John. He rented out a house in Chamundi Layout in Electronics City Phase 1 area to manufacture MDMA crystals. The accused with the help of his associates sold them to customers in Bengaluru, other states and even sold them as parcels to the customers in foreign countries.