Bank accounts of accused in Indore MDMA case being investigated

Among those arrested are Ved Prakash Vyas, the main accused, a resident of Hyderabad’s Jalvayu Vihar who owns a pharma factory where the drug was allegedly manufactured.

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Indore police is police investigating the illegal properties and bank accounts of two accused allegedly with 70 kilograms of MDMA drugs worth Rs 70 crore in the international market.

The police are also investigating the financial trails of the Ved Vedprakash Vyas (50), who runs a drug manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, and his driver Mangi Venkatesh (39) who were arrested along with Indore-based Dinesh Agrawal (55), Akshay Agrawal (30) and Chiman Agrawal (38) in the case.

According to police, the drugs were manufactured in a factory in Telangana and were being shipped to several countries.

The accused had smuggled drugs through private vehicles, public transport and trains, police said.

The accused confessed to their crime and accepted that Dinesh, Akshay and Chiman used to purchase ecstasy pills from Ved Prakash and Mangi and used to supply the same to parties held in the city.

All about Veda Prakash Vyas and his aides

Vyas was previously a medical representative in a pharmaceutical company. Recently, he started a drug factory in Telangana.

Vyas has lived in Ujjain, Dewas and Mandsaur in MP, where he came in contact with Agrawal, a resident of Indore.

The arrested persons have smuggled a large amount of MDMA drugs wroth above Rs 100 crore so far.

This is the largest seizure of synthetic drugs in the country and police found that 80 per cent of the drugs were pure.

Those arrested from Indore were running a drug racket under the garb of a tent house and catering business.

Vyas had come to Indore along with his driver Venkatesh to deliver the drug consignment and Drugs were being transported from Hyderabad to South Africa when Indore police intercepted the consignment at the outskirts of the city.

Indore police have passed on the information to Telangana police to check what medicines are being produced by the pharma company in Hyderabad.

The investigation is underway and the police were interrogating the accused to elicit more information about the supply of the drugs and their buyers.