BENGALURU: Six people, including a criminal national, have been detained by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) authorities in the early hours of Saturday.
The accused are Adithyan PB, 29 and also Akhil CS, 25, taxpayers of Kannamangala, close Kadugodi and out of Thrissur, Kerala, their partners John Chukwka, 30, by Nigeria, Sherwin Supreet John, 26, of Horamavu, Aniketh A Keshava, 26, of Amruthanagar and Domnic Paul, 30, of Koramangala.
Narcotic materials -400 MDMA Ecstasy tablets, 76 LSD strips, ganja-worth Rs 35 lakh plus a vehicle, bicycle, six cellular phones and Rs 5,000 are captured from them.
Transaction via darknetPolice reported the group used to market the drugs to get a greater cost making the most of the massive demand throughout the lockdown.
They’d sail between 6am and 10am when authorities checking is not as to send the medication to their regular clients that included students, IT entrepreneurs and professionals.
The gang billed Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 to get a tablet computer and additionally for every LSD strip.
For 100 g ganja, they had to charge Rs 5,000.
Police detained the suspects by a rental home in Kannamangala village nearby Kadugodi.
They procured narcotics via darknet and paid Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 for every ecstasy pill by a seller, Vagatar.
The trading has been performed via a cell program using Bitcoins.
The medication reached them .
Chukwka was previously arrested by Hyderabad authorities and released on bond on March 5.
Afterwards, he arrived into Bengaluru and joined hands with all the gang.
Adithyan was also detained by CCB authorities in 2016 at Banasawadi region.
Kadugodi authorities is probing the situation.