Last Updated: March 09, 2024, 13:42 IST
Jaffer Sadiq was arrested by the NCB in reference to the India-Australia-New Zealand medication trafficking case in a joint operation with the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. (X/@arjaffersadiq)
Jaffer Sadiq, a producer of Tamil movies, was lately expelled by the ruling DMK from the occasion. He was the Chennai West deputy organiser of the DMK’s NRI wing. The NCB has termed him the “mastermind and kingpin” of a world medication trafficking community unfold between India, Australia, and New Zealand
The NCB on Saturday apprehended Jaffer Sadiq, a Tamil Nadu-based alleged vendor of narcotics, in reference to the India-Australia-New Zealand medication trafficking case in a joint operation with the Special Cell of the Delhi Police.
Sadiq, a producer of Tamil movies, was lately expelled by the ruling DMK from the occasion. He was the Chennai West deputy organiser of the DMK’s NRI wing.
The NCB has termed him the “mastermind and kingpin” of a world medication trafficking community unfold between India, Australia, and New Zealand.
On February 15, the federal anti-narcotics company had arrested three of Sadiq’s aides — Mukesh (34) Mujibur Rahman (26) and Ashok Kumar (33) — and seized 50 kg of narcotics-making chemical pseudoephedrine in a search at a Delhi godown.
The NCB since then had been in search of Sadiq and raided properties linked to him in Tamil Nadu.
According to sources, the trio arrested final month had revealed throughout interrogation that Sadiq near Udhayanidhi Stalin, Tamil Nadu Sports Minister and the son of Chief Minister MK Stalin, in addition to different DMK leaders, together with Rajya Sabha MP MM Abdullah and Chennai West district secretary of the occasion N Chitrarasu.
“They also revealed that Sadiq had sent 45 consignments in the past three years containing approximately 3,500 kg of pseudoephedrine, valued at over Rs 2,000 crore,” an official mentioned.
