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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police on Wednesday claimed to have seized drugs worth Rs.1.60 crore and arrested three foreign nationals for drug peddling.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Task Force/ H-NEW, Y.V.S. Sudheendra, said they have arrested two Nigerians and a Guinean.
Police arrested Oliver Ugochukwu alias Johnson alias John alias Emji, a Nigerian, and seized 1,300 grams of MDMA from his possession. The 44-year-old was living in Mumbai.
The investigations revealed that he came to New Delhi in 2009 on a business visa. He developed friendships with the other Nigerians indulging in drug peddling. Even after the expiry of his valid visa and passport, he was staying in India and doing drug peddling.
He was arrested by Lodhi Colony Police Station, Delhi, in 2013 for possessing heroin for which he was in jail for 5 years and 9 months. After coming out from the jail in 2019, he shifted to Mumbai. He again started drug peddling and was supplying MDMA to Nigerians in Mumbai and Bengaluru. He used to procure the drug in bulk on need from a Nigerian identified as Oyibo, a resident of Delhi for Rs 300 per gram, and sold the same to the other Nigerians in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru for Rs 600 to 1,000 per gram.
Oyibo had handed over to him three packets of MDMA weighing 1,300 grams and instructed him to go to Hyderabad and supply 100 grams of MDMA drug to a person. Accordingly, Oliver reached Hyderabad and was waiting for further instructions from Oyibo.
Moussa Camara alias Romeo, a national of Guinea and resident of Bengaluru, was arrested on charges of drug peddling.
According to police, he came to India in 2020 on a medical visa and landed at Mumbai International Airport. As he was carrying cocaine, the immigration authorities apprehended him. After spending six months in jail, he stayed with his friend Emika at Nallasopara, Mumbai. During their stay, he met with some Nigerian drug suppliers and developed contacts with them.
