Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials have arrested a woman from Assam, who owns a restaurant in Goa and uses it as a front to run a drug racket
Julie Raju Singh
Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials have arrested a woman from Assam, who owns a restaurant in Goa and uses it as a front to run a drug racket. Her aide, a Nigerian drug peddler, has also been arrested. NCB has seized 140 grams (commercial quantity) of cocaine, worth lakhs of rupees, from their possession. The accused have been identified as Julie Raju Singh and Chindu Monday Nwafore, a Nigerian national. According to an NCB official, Nwafore was an employee in Julie’s City Corner restaurant cum bar.
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Sources said the restaurant was infamous for providing drugs at any time of the year. After verifying all the information, NCB raided the food joint on Wednesday and found 140 grams cocaine, which Julie kept at Nwafore’s house. NCB zonal director Kumar Sanjay Jha said, “She and the Nigerian used the place to sell drugs to locals and tourists. Both of them have been booked under relevant sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, but investigations are still on.”
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