Mangaluru: In a major drug bust, two Nigerian women were arrested on Sunday at Bengaluru Airport with the possession of 37 kilograms of MDMA valued at Rs 75 crore.
According to Mangaluru Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal, the women were Bamba Fanta (31) and Abigail Adonis (30), who were apprehended from Delhi while carrying the illegal drugs hidden in trolley bags.
Police confiscated four mobile phones, passports, and cash of Rs 18,000 from both women. The two women had been living in Delhi when they became engaged in the international drug smuggling operations. They supposedly engaged in drug messes across India by taking MDMA along with the niggaries on air. The investigation revealed that in the last year, both women made 59 trips in all, which included 37 trips to Mumbai and 22 to Bengaluru.
While Fanta first entered India in 2020 on a business visa, Adonis has lived in India since 2016. Both women had professed to working with the said drug cartel for a span of one to two years. About six months ago, an operation that yielded their apprehension began when a certain male by the name of Haider Ali was arrested in Mangaluru in possession of 15 grams of MDMA. Further investigations linked to the entire case to Peter, a Nigerian national arrested in Bengaluru with 6 kilograms of MDMA.
This bust is being hailed as the biggest-ever drug seizure in Karnataka, and investigations are ongoing to dismantle the larger international drug syndicate involved. The arrests are a major setback for the illegal drug trade in the state, and the drug trafficking routes being followed by international drug traffickers are being actively monitored by different law enforcement agencies.
[ Source Credit: NDTV ]
