In a serious drug bust in Bengaluru, the Anti-Narcotics wing of the town’s Central Crime Department arrested a 25-year-old girl from Nigeria on June 10 with Rs 10-crore value of MDMA crystals hid in a girls’s put on consignment that she was carrying.
The 25-year-old has been recognized as Akinwunmi Princess Ifeoluwa who arrived in India on a scholar visa and was residing at Uttam Nagar in New Delhi.
The lady was arrested from the Tarahunise village on the Rajanakunte Major Street of the Chikkajala police limits on a tip-off supplied by informants {that a} foreigner was going to ship a consignment of MDMA in Bengaluru.
The police have reported discovering 5.32 kg of MDMA crystals, an Apple cell phone, and a consignment of recent churidar costume items from the possession of the lady.
“The offender is a foreigner who landed in Delhi a couple of years in the past,” the Bengaluru police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh mentioned.
“The knowledge supplied by informants said {that a} foreigner was illegally incomes cash by promoting prohibited medicine,” the Bengaluru police mentioned in a press release on Friday.
Ifeoluwa has said that she got here to New Delhi on October 4, 2021, on a scholar visa to review on the Chaitanya Deemed College in Telangana, however didn’t enroll on the school. As a substitute, she mentioned she moved to New Delhi to work as a stylist doing hair braiding and pedicures. She claimed to have met a girl known as Asa who assigned her the duty of transporting the contraband to Bengaluru.
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“She had hidden MDMA crystals in a consignment containing new costume piece supplies that had been allegedly packed by her acquaintance and transported from Delhi to Bangalore by bus,” the police mentioned.
The lady has claimed that she was delivering the medicine to a seller in Bengaluru. The police are but to arrest the receiver of the consignment.
The Nigerian girl claimed that she began peddling medicine after interactions with Nigerian acquaintances residing in Delhi.
The lady has been charged underneath the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985 and the Foreigners Act of 1946.