DRI seizes are cocaine worth over a ₹502 crore

DRI seizes are cocaine worth over a ₹502 crore

Based on specific intelligence developed by DRI Mumbai Zonal Unit, a container carrying pears and a green apples, being imported from the South Africa, was intercepted at the Nhava Sheva port on 6 October.

NEW DELHI: The Directorate of a  Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized cocaine worth over a ₹502 crore being imported from the South Africa, the probe agency said in a statement on a Saturday.

Based on specific intelligence developed by the DRI Mumbai Zonal Unit, a container carrying pears and a green apples, being imported from South Africa, was intercepted at the Nhava Sheva port on 6 October.

Inspection showed that a large number of a bricks made up of high-quality cocaine and a weighing approximately 1 kg each were concealed inside the boxes of a green apples. A total of 50 such as a bricks weighing over a 50 kg and valued at the ₹502 crore in the illicit market were recovered during the examination, DRI said.

This cocaine was getting imported in the name of the same are a importer who was earlier arrested by DRI in a case in a Vashi involving the seizure of a drugs from a consignment of a oranges originating from the South Africa. This is a one of the largest seizures of cocaine attempted to be a smuggled through sea containers in the recent past, DRI said.

The importer has been a arrested under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and a Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)  in a Act, 1985. This is part of a series of a large drug seizures made by DRI, Mumbai Zonal Unit ranging from 198 kg of the methamphetamine and 9 kg cocaine to the 16 kg heroine in a last 10 days, DRI stated.