The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Mumbai on Wednesday said that the kingpin behind a transnational drug trafficking syndicate, whose name had cropped up in a US cocaine smuggling case, was deported from Malaysia to India.

NCB officials said that the agency had secured the deportation of the kingpin behind the transnational drug trafficking syndicate from Malaysia with the assistance of other national and international agencies.

The suspected kingpin has been identified as Navin Gurunath Chichkar, an official said.