‘Links to film industry, DMK’: NCB arrests international drug network kingpin Jaffer Sadiq

Mar 09, 2024

New Delhi, March 09 (ANI): The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Jaffer Sadiq, the alleged kingpin of an international drug trafficking network, officials said on Saturday." Jaffer Sadiq is the kingpin of a network spread over India, New Zealand, Australia, and Malaysia," as per an NCB official. Gyaneshwar Singh, Deputy Director General (OEC), said in a statement that the accused, Sadiq, earned huge amount of money through drug trafficking and invested it in multiple industries like films, construction, hospitality, etc. Sadiq was arrested in connection with a seizure of 50kg of pseudoephedrine in Delhi, an official said, adding that the NCB is cooperating with New Zealand and Australian authorities to bust the entire transnational network. On specific intelligence, NCB made the arrest today of the kingpin of the drug trafficking network busted by NCB in the month of February 2024, the official said.