Jaffer Sadiq has made 4 movies to this point within the South movie business.

New Delhi:

A movie producer has been arrested for allegedly smuggling medicine value over Rs 2,000 crore overseas. Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK functionary who has labored within the Tamil movie business, has been on the run since February 15, stated the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) on Saturday.

The NCB has named Sadiq the “kingpin” of the India-Australia-New Zealand medicine trafficking community, who smuggled Rs 2,000-crore medicine to Australia and New Zealand.

“He has despatched 3,500 kg pseudoephedrine in 45 parcels to Australia,” stated Gyaneshwar Singh, NCB Deputy Director Normal. Pseudoephedrine was despatched overseas hid in coconuts and dry fruits. It’s used within the manufacturing of methamphetamine, or crystal meth, and is a managed substance in India.

Sadiq had escaped to Jaipur by way of Thiruvananthapur, Mumbai, Pune, and Hyderabad, he stated.

He amassed crores by drug smuggling and invested the drug cash in actual property and movie manufacturing, together with his newest Mangai. He used the drug cash to additionally purchase a resort, added Mr Singh. 

Sadiq has made 4 movies to this point with considered one of them anticipated to launch this month.

His arrest got here every week after officers seized methamphetamine value Rs 180 crore from two rail passengers in Madurai and a dump yard in Chennai. The medicine have been to be smuggled into Sri Lanka.

A complete of 36 kg was seized from the passenger couple and one other 6 kg from Kodungaiyur dump yard in Chennai on February 29, officers stated. The couple was detained after the seizure.

Methamphetamine, also called “ice” or “crystal meth”, is a extremely addictive psychostimulant drug that displays highly effective euphoric results just like these of cocaine and has life-threatening penalties, the Directorate of Income Intelligence had stated.

Following the drug bust, BJP state chief Ok Annamalai had lashed out on the ruling DMK and stated Tamil Nadu has change into the drug capital of India.

“Worldwide druglord and a DMK functionary Jaffar Sadiq is on the run. The NCB is raiding DMK functionaries’ institutions. Rs 1,200 crore value en path to Tamil Nadu caught off the coast of Gujarat, and at this time 30 kgs of methamphetamine have been caught in transit in Madurai by the Directorate of Income Intelligence,” he had stated in a web-based put up.

Three others related to this worldwide drug syndicate have been not too long ago arrested by the NCB from Delhi. The US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation can also be cooperating with the Indian company within the medicine probe.