- The Bengaluru police are looking for another woman who was the source of supply to foreigners involved in drug peddling
In one of the biggest drug hauls in Bengaluru, the narcotics wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the city police arrested a Nigerian woman and seized 12 kg of MDMA , a synthetic psychedelic drug, worth Rs 24 crore she was holding for distribution, the police said on Tuesday.
The Bengaluru police said Roselime Oluchi, 40, was running a hotel and general store in the K R Puram region of east Bengaluru to cater to foreigners and using it as a front for distribution. Oluchi came to India from Nigeria on a business visa five years ago and continued to live in India as an illegal resident after her visa expired, they said.
The CCB tracked the woman after receiving information last week that she was expecting a consignment of drugs from another foreign woman named Juliet, who had travelled from Mumbai to Bengaluru to deliver the drugs.
A police raid on December 13 led to the seizure of MDMA. The police found that Oluchi and Juliet were selling the banned drug MDMA crystal at a low price to foreign nationals, familiar customers, college students, and software professionals to get rich quickly.
“This is an international and interstate drug network. This is possibly one of the biggest drug hauls in Bengaluru and even the state of Karnataka,” Commissioner B Dayanand said at a press briefing.
“She (Juliet) used to bring the drugs hidden in soap boxes, rice packets, and fish containers. She is absconding and was the source of supply to foreigners in Bengaluru involved in drug peddling,” he said.
“As many as 70 Airtel SIM cards used for the drug operations have been found. The woman from Mumbai supplied these SIM cards,” the police commissioner said. The police filed a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Foreigners Act against the two women.
@The Indian Express, excluding headline
