How 21-year-old Lucknow lad ran global drug racket in garb of selling online medicines
A multi-crore global drug racket was being operated through the dark web in the garb of online sale of medicines from a nondescript house tucked away in Alambagh area of the city. And the 21-year-old kingpin had dabbled in a failed online business before going fullthrottle into shipping contraband to Europe through Dark Net. Son of a retired PCS officer and hotel management graduate from Lucknow, the drug dealer, Dipu Singh, was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Delhi, sleuths last week. At least 12,000 psychotropic tablets masked as medicine and fitness supplements were seized from his home and the cache is being examined for cannabis content. He skirted the law for over two years by accepting payment in cryptocurrency. The case was cracked after a consignment shipped to United Kingdom was seized by NCB, Mumbai, on December 9 last year. Investigations led to seizure of another consignment to Romania on January 17 this year. The cargo did not bear Know Your Cust...