Noida Shocker: Couple Busted For Secretly Cooking Drugs Worth ₹26 Cr. In IPS Officer’s Home!

Earlier, an 81-year-old Maharashtrian was busted for cultivating cannabis in Palghar district. And now, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has raided a rented house in Greater Noida’s Sector P4 and found drugs worth Rs. 26 crores! A local shopkeeper named Gajraj Singh also helped with the bust. The drug dealers used to buy routine food items from his shop and were eventually tricked by Gajraj into opening his main gate.

According to Hindustan Times, the house was rented by 35-year-old Nigerian Henry Ideofor and his wife 30-year-old Chimando Okora. On May 10, officials seized 1,818 kg of pseudoephedrine and 1.9 kg of cocaine from the raided home.

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The owner of the house is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer named Devendra PN Pandey posted in Lucknow. He rented it out to the perpetrators for Rs. 24,000 per month in 2015. He was completely in the dark that his home was being used as a drug den.

“Ideofor and a woman who he introduced as his wife would host me in the front room. I never checked the house as I thought it was rude to invade their privacy.”

The locality’s sparse population, lack of security guards and police patrolling helped the operation go undetected. NCB officials further revealed that,

“The Nigerian nationals had stacked the pseudoephedrine in 52 big drums, all concealed in the large washrooms. A large electronic apparatus used for cooking adulterated cocaine was recovered from the basement.”

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How did the drug racket work?

The perpetrators hung a lock at the main gate giving the impression that the house was unoccupied. They kept a low profile and stored essentials that could last them months at a time. They installed 3 CCTV cameras around the house and used a mobile phone to monitor the area. Pseudoephedrine from the country and had it shipped to Africa to produce methamphetamine (meth) and sold across the globe. The cocaine, however, was sold in the Delhi NCR region.

“They would pay Rs. 2 lakh and sponsor the air tickets of African people willing to visit India and take back a few kilos of the drug. These couriers would visit the Greater Noida house and take back 20kg to 30kg of the drug with them.”

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Around 10 people have been arrested at Delhi airport for smuggling and they were the ones that led officials to zero in on the Greater Noida house.

After interrogating the arrested Nigerians, NCB has found out that a man named Bruno Kuffor (resident of Sierra Leone) is the mastermind behind this drug operation. We hope that he is apprehended soon and his smuggling racket is shut down.

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