New Delhi: A police team raided a deserted house in Greater Noida where a group of foreigners were making meth in the middle of the night, prompting some of them to jump off the three-storey building, news agency PTI told officials. was quoted as saying on Wednesday. She too was stunned by what the police saw – a complex setup for synthetic drug production, strong intoxicating smell inside the premises and foreigners wearing high-quality face masks. “It looked like what we have seen in web series like ‘Narcos’ and ‘Breaking Bad’,” PTI quoted Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan, who led the raid, as saying. Eight Nigerians and one Senegalese man were arrested from a house near Jaitpur-Vaispur village in Sector Theta 2, police said, adding that 46 kg of the “white, purest” form of MDMA was seized from the spot. Whose cost was 200 rupees. Ten million.
Beta 2 police station and a team of SWAT also seized raw material which could be used to manufacture MDMA worth over Rs 100 crore. “Police were getting information about synthetic drug syndicate spread across Greater Noida and Noida. Police Commissioner Laxmi Singh had given clear instructions to the department to crack down on illegal drugs and cannabis.
Joint action of SWAT Team/Greater Noida Police.
MDMA/Meth drugs manufacturing factory busted, 46 Kg to 9 foreign nationals. Arrested with Mathafy Tamine/MDMA/Meth drugs whose international price is Rs 300 crore, drug making equipment and Raw Material/Chemical.
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The DCP said that so far in 2023 alone, the police have seized around 1,800 kg of illicit drugs, including cannabis, in the Greater Noida area. “This is the biggest seizure of meth or MDMA by the state police in Uttar Pradesh,” Khan said. According to police officials, in May 2019, over 1,800 kg of pseudoephedrine was seized in Greater Noida and three foreigners were arrested in an operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
Joint action of SWAT Team/Greater Noida Police.
MDMA/Meth drugs manufacturing factory busted, 09 foreign nationals got 46 Kg. Arrested with Methaphy Tamine/MDMA/Meth drugs whose international price is Rs 300 crore, drug making equipment and Raw Material/Chemical. pic.twitter.com/ygZk5bu513– CP Noida (@CP_Noida) May 17, 2023
The IPS officer said Wednesday’s busting of the meth cooking gang across Delhi-NCR was a long process, which took almost three months to complete. The process involved manual intelligence and working on a network of police informers, he added.
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“The police team implicated the two accused for fixing a deal of supply of synthetic drugs. Both were caught near Dada Golchakkar in Greater Noida when they were in a Toyota Etios car.” 5.50 kg MDMA, then took the police team to a three-storey house where his other associates had set up a laboratory to cook meth in large quantities.” There were nets around it, high-quality masks on their faces, he said.
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“There was strong narcotic smell inside the compound and they were caught cooking MDMA in a sophisticated setup with large quantities of raw material on the floor. Some of them even tried to jump off the building to evade arrest,” he said . Said. Meanwhile, an FIR was being registered against the nine accused and further legal proceedings were underway, DCP Khan said, adding that the police would seek their custody from a court for further investigation.