Chennai (Tamil Nadu): Over 5,000 ecstasy pills worth Rs 1.6 crore which arrived from overseas destinations have been seized in Chennai during two different incidents, Customs Department said on Wednesday.
The pills, suspected to be methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), arrived in two parcels from Belgium and the Netherlands, the Customs Commissioner Rajan Choudhary said in a statement.
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In one consignment from Belgium received at the Foreign Post Office here, the officials recovered 4,060 pills concealed in nine black pouches, the statement said.
The authorities searched neighbouring Kancheepuram district for the address and found it to be fake, it said.
In another consignment from the Netherlands, the officials recovered 1,150 ecstasy pills, 100 gms of MDMA crystals and one gm of methaqualone powder, the release said.