Kutch, Sept. 21: Adani: DRI team busted an international drug racket and seized drugs worth about Rs 9000 crore from Adani Owned Mundra Port in Gujarat. The agency officials are reported to have seized 2,988.22 kg of heroin. Earlier, Asha Trading Company had termed the consignment as talcum powder.
The exporting firm has been identified as Hassan Hussain Limited, based in Kandahar, Afghanistan. When the DRI and Customs stopped the consignment and checked, instead of talcum powder, drugs worth crores were recovered. The largest consignment of drugs recovered by the DRI is said to be worth Rs 9,000 crore.
SP leader Sunil Singh Sajan has tweeted, ‘The biggest consignment of heroine in the history of India worth 9 thousand crores has been caught at Mundra port in Gujarat. The owner of the house where the drug is found is also jailed, then why not sue the port owner? Because the owner of this port is Adani ji, the best friend of Modi ji and Shah ji.
Some channels of Godi Media are reporting the seized consignment as hidden inside an imported package of Ashi Trading Company of Vijayawada. And its connection is being linked to the import of talc stones from Afghanistan. It is also being told that these drugs were being imported in the name of ‘talcum powder’, which was caught red handed.
Adani Mundra Port
The massive haul of drugs, which was seized from Mundra Port in Gujarat’s Kutch on September 15, was headed for Delhi and not Vijayawada as claimed by some media reports.
Meanwhile, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officials suspect a wider network of individuals behind the operation. Raids are reportedly underway in Ahmedabad, Delhi and Chennai in this case. Sources said that multiple suspects, including Afghan nationals, have been picked up for questioning.
It is to mention here that Mundra Port is owned by Adani Port. Adani Port is a company owned by industrialist Gautam Adani. Heroin has been recovered in the operation of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Customs.
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