A 31-year-old Tanzanian man has been arrested here by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for allegedly smuggling in heroin worth about ₹1 crore, officials said on Wednesday.
Brayton N. Lyimo was apprehended by sleuths of the agency at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here on Tuesday night after he landed from Mumbai.
Tip-off
“Lyimo was intercepted at the Delhi airport as the agency was working on some intelligence inputs on activities of international drug cartels. His contacts in Delhi and a few other places are under the scanner,” NCB Zonal Director Madho Singh said.
Officials of the agency said Mr. Lyimo was carrying two packets of heroin, weighing 4.8 kg, in his registered baggage and had arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
He later took a flight to Delhi, where he was intercepted by NCB sleuths and arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, they said.
They added that the contraband was handed over to Mr. Lyimo by a man in Tanzania and he had to hand it over to a Nigerian man living here. The Tanzanian man had come to India in January last year, the officials said.