New Delhi:

A movie producer has been arrested for allegedly smuggling medicine price over Rs 2,000 crore in another country. Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK functionary who has labored within the Tamil movie trade, has been on the run since February 15, stated the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) on Saturday.

The NCB has named Sadiq the “kingpin” of the India-Australia-New Zealand medicine trafficking community, who smuggled Rs 2,000-crore medicine to Australia and New Zealand.

“He has despatched 3,500 kg pseudoephedrine in 45 parcels to Australia,” stated Gyaneshwar Singh, NCB Deputy Director Normal. Pseudoephedrine was despatched overseas hid in coconuts and dry fruits. It’s used within the manufacturing of methamphetamine, or crystal meth, and is a managed substance in India.

Sadiq had escaped to Jaipur through Thiruvananthapur, Mumbai, Pune, and Hyderabad, he stated.

He amassed crores by drug smuggling and invested the drug cash in actual property and movie manufacturing, together with his newest Mangai. He used the drug cash to additionally purchase a resort, added Mr Singh. 

Sadiq has made 4 movies thus far with considered one of them anticipated to launch this month.

His arrest got here every week after officers seized methamphetamine price Rs 180 crore from two rail passengers in Madurai and a dump yard in Chennai. The medicine had been to be smuggled into Sri Lanka.

A complete of 36 kg was seized from the passenger couple and one other 6 kg from Kodungaiyur dump yard in Chennai on February 29, officers stated. The couple was detained after the seizure.

Methamphetamine, also called “ice” or “crystal meth”, is a extremely addictive psychostimulant drug that displays highly effective euphoric results much like these of cocaine and has life-threatening penalties, the Directorate of Income Intelligence had stated.

Following the drug bust, BJP state chief Okay Annamalai had lashed out on the ruling DMK and stated Tamil Nadu has grow to be the drug capital of India.

“Worldwide druglord and a DMK functionary Jaffar Sadiq is on the run. The NCB is raiding DMK functionaries’ institutions. Rs 1,200 crore price en path to Tamil Nadu caught off the coast of Gujarat, and right this moment 30 kgs of methamphetamine had been caught in transit in Madurai by the Directorate of Income Intelligence,” he had stated in a web-based publish.

Three others related to this worldwide drug syndicate had been lately arrested by the NCB from Delhi. The US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation can also be cooperating with the Indian company within the medicine probe.