HYDERABAD: A 43-year-old Nigerian national, who resides at Candolim, was apprehended in Hyderabad for allegedly peddling drugs and 557 grams of cocaine and other narcotic drugs all worth Rs 8 crore, according to the Hyderabad said in a media briefing.
Iwuala Udoka Stanley was living in Candolim, Goa and a team of Telangana State Anti-Narcotics Bureau (TSNAB) had kept a watch in Goa for more than a month to identify the accused, informed Telangana Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) S M Vijay Kumar.
The team came to know that the accused was going to visit Hyderabad to supply drugs to his known consumers and also to do some drug dealings, police said. Based on that information, the TSNAB team along with the assistance of Panjagutta Police apprehended Stanley and seized cocaine and various other narcotic drugs from his possession, they said.
In 2017, Stanley was arrested by the NCB, Goa for drug peddling and was lodged in Central Jail, Colvale. After his release, he continued his drug business and started procuring it from various persons and was selling them to the customers in Goa, police said.
According to the DCP, the accused mainly got drugs from Nigerians who stay in Mumbai and Goa and there are many other drug suppliers from whom he procured them and they would be identified during investigation.
The police suspect that there are more than 500 consumers who purchased drugs from Stanley in which seven are from Hyderabad.
The investigation is on to identify the drug peddlers, transporters, financial supporters, other associates and the consumers who are purchasing drugs from the Nigerian, police added.
Last week, a Nigerian woman was arrested by the Customs officials at the New Delhi international airport for allegedly smuggling into the country cocaine worth Rs 82 crore.
The accused was intercepted after her arrival from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
