Two timber importers picked up in cocaine case
The Hindu
Drug was found on a ship that ferried timber from Panama to VOC Port
Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have picked up two timber importers of Shencottai in Tenkasi district for interrogation in connection with the seizure of 303 kg of cocaine. The drug was found in a ship that ferried timber from Panama to the VOC Port at Thoothukudi. When the ship berthed at the port on Tuesday, having passed through the Antwerp and Colombo ports, DRI officials checked eight containers based on a tip-off. Since nine bags containing cocaine had been found amid logs in one of the containers, the officials seized the drug, worth ₹1,500 crore in the international market, and picked up the two importers who had ordered the logs.
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