Delhi Police Special Cell on Saturday claimed to have smashed an international gang involved in human trafficking. The “international cartel” and its members were actively involved in drug peddling and fake currency business and had registered several bogus companies. Special Cell sleuths arrested seven Nigerians and a Burmese woman on the charges of human trafficking and fraud.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, and Sanjeev Yadav said that out of the eight arrested, there is a Nigerian couple, including a pastor, and a Burmese woman. They were allegedly involved in human trafficking using fake passports and cheating people by luring them by fictitious using emails.
Special Cell recovered 1.450 kg of party drug methaquolone, 2.5 gram of cocaine, fake US Dollars with a face value of 10,000, Indian currency with a face value of Rs 15,000, 19 passports, including one fake Indian Passport and seven Ghana blank Passports, 15 mobile phones and 35 SIM cards among other articles, Yadav said.
Those arrested have been identified are - Olatide Morrison (55) and his wife Deborah (47), Burmese national lal Chhan Chhuahi (29), Nelson (31), Chima Nakappa (29), Elozie (60) and Steve (36). The gang was busted after investigations were launched on to work out a specific input provided by a central intelligence agency that a group consisting of foreigners is involved in trafficking of drugs in and out of India, the DCP said.
The intelligence input also said that this gang of international fraudsters has also incorporated and got registered several companies in India on fictitious and bogus documents in order to facilitate transfer of money earned through drug trafficking,” the DCP added.
Investigations revealed that that certain members had send some suspicious parcels in Canada on April 6. The input was analyzed and a specially constituted team was put on the job.
Teams were constituted to trace these parcels and were located at the Foreign Post Office, Delhi. By requisitioning assistance from the Delhi Custom Department and officials from Foreign Post Office, these parcels were checked and were found containing five sarees, two lehnghas and chunnies, Yadav said.
The parcel was confiscated and it contained 253 grams of Psychotropic Drug Methaquolone. It was found at the bottom of these clothes.