Bengaluru: In one of the biggest seizures of MDMA drugs, commonly known as ecstasy pills, packages from Germany containing 2.59kg drugs that are prohibited are estimated to be worth Rs 1.80 Crore excavated at the Foreign Post Office (FPO) in Bengaluru.
A national Nigerian scheduled to collect the drug parcels he suspected had been ordered through the dark web captured by Bengaluru Customs.
The source with the City Customs Unit said the Parcel brought a large ecstasy pill in the striking colors of pink, blue and yellow reaching the FPO in Chamarajpet in Bengaluru on Saturday after being sent from an unknown address in Germany.
As part of the inspection procedure, the customs team on duty at the post office sent Parsel through a scanning machine to see something wrong about the basic area.
They then cut a brown box to dig a colored pill attach down in an effort to avoid detection by the authorities.
Lab tests are immediately confirmed the multi-color pills weighing 2.59kg as methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), psychoactive recreational drugs which are prohibited substances known as ecstasy pills among drugs.
The customs team then started the probe to the receiver of drug parcels and reached a man in the city with the guise of conveying it.
However, making the investigator whiff in a drug trial, a suspect who was a Bengaluru population, tried to escape but was arrested in a dramatic pursuit on the Road Customs.
After the operation that lasted 48 hours, he was detained under narcotics narcotics and psychotropic substances (NDPS) acting and produced before a judge on Monday, returned to the trial and nesting prisoner at the Agrahara Parapula Prison Complex here.
Probe Introduction revealed that the suspect was identified as nigeria because of a sustainable investigation, it has ordered an ecstasy pill worth Rs 1.80 Crore on the international market through the dark web and smuggles it through a possible city FPO package system as a further distribution of Bengaluru.
The next probe by the Customs Team is in smuggling substance and African relations, the source said.