A Nigerian is currently assisting India’s Narcotics Control
Bureau with his investigation after he was nabbed with cocaine worth Rs 7.5 crore
(about N415,864,530.00).
Thirty-nine years old Okoro Uka was arrested alongside a
Venezuelan woman, Brigette D V R Santoyo, 36, with authorities alleging the two
were part of an international drugs racket.
The duo were apprehended from a hotel in the Mahipalpur area
of Delhi when they were allegedly exchanging the drugs.
Santoyo had allegedly brought along the drugs cache along
with her from a foreign destination.
The two have been arrested under sections of the Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act by the Delhi zonal unit of the NCB,
officials said.
Reports from the Asian country said Santoyo had arrived in
India from Addis Ababa on Tuesday and had allegedly set up a meeting with the
Nigerian man at the hotel to hand over the drugs.
“On November 20, our team received a tip-off that at around
3 pm, a Venezuelan lady, who is suspected to be carrying cocaine has booked a
hotel room in Mahipalpur. The Venezuelan woman revealed that she arrived at the
Indira Gandhi International Airport from Addis Ababa on Monday. She first
entered Brazil from Venezuela on September 9 via road and travelled from Sao
Paolo to Addis Ababa by an Ethiopian flight on November 19,” India’s Daily
Pioneer said.
“The accused Venezuelan disclosed that she was handed over
the trolley bag in Sao Paolo at a bus stand by a Nigerian national. She was
being handled by one Emanuel, believed to be a Nigerian national, staying in
Brazil.”
According to the paper, after a sustained interrogation of
the Nigerian national, he confessed that he came to Delhi from Mumbai and had
been staying at the same hotel as that of the Venezuelan woman since Sunday.
He further revealed that he often comes to India and it was
his 12th visit.
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