With the arrest of a 30-year-old woman from the US, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday claimed to have busted an international drug cartel trying to deliver a consignment of cocaine to Goa. Earlier this month, the NCB had recovered three consignments of cocaine which were supposed to be sent to Goa for the party season in December-end. Singh said, “During questioning, she said that she was an American citizen and was travelling from São Paulo in Brazil to New Delhi via Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. She said that she had gone to São Paulo from Chicago a few days ago. Singh said that the route usually taken for trafficking cocaine to Delhi is from Sao Paolo through either Addis Ababa or Dubai, but of late, Kochi has emerged as a ‘transit hub’.

Source: Indian Express November 29, 2017 19:30 UTC