Mumbai: Mumbai Unit of the Intelligence Directorate (DRI) Wednesday on Wednesday arrested a 62-year-old businessman from Navi Mumbai, Jayesh Sanghvi, for allegedly smuggling 25kg Heroin worth Rs 125 Crore in the consignment of peanut oil from Iran using other people.
Importer exporters (IEC) code.
Officials of DRI, on certain intelligence, held back containers who had arrived from Iran in Nhava Sheva in Navi Mumbai and conducted a search for 4.
October.
“We found a package containing white powder which was said to be heroin, between 25.6kg, between peanut oil and other items.
We took the package,” said an official.
In learning that the container was imported by Sandeep Thakkar from Vaibhav Enterprises, who had an office at the Bunder Mosque, officials asked him.
Thakkar was reported to notify the officials of Dri that the Sanghvi had offered him Rs 10,000 per consignment to import goods from Iran in the IEC of his company.
Thakkar further stated that because he had done business with Sanghvi since 15 years, he believed him, said an official DRI.
Dri officials then arrested the Sanghvi and ordered it under narcotics of narcotics and the Psyhotropic substances.
On Thursday, he was produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which sent it to DRI Custody until October 11.
While looking for sanghvi prisoners, DRI claims she is part of the syndicate and they need to ask her to get the details of all involved.
Dri suspects that a similar consignment may have been smuggled before too.
In July, the DRI Mumbai unit has confiscated 293kg heroin from Port Mumbai and has arrested Prabhjit Singh, owner of Sandhu Export Punjab, who has imported consignment.