A Nigerian is currently assisting India’s Narcotics Control Bureau with its investigation after he was nabbed with cocaine worth Rs 7.5 crore (about N415,864,530.00). Thirty-nine years old Okoro Uka was arrested alongside a Venezuelan woman, Brigette D V R Santoyo, 36, with authorities alleging the two were part of an international drugs racket. The Venezuelan woman revealed that she arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Addis Ababa on Monday. She first entered Brazil from Venezuela on September 9 via road and travelled from Sao Paolo to Addis Ababa by an Ethiopian flight on November 19,” India’s Daily Pioneer said. “The accused Venezuelan disclosed that she was handed over the trolley bag in Sao Paolo at a bus stand by a Nigerian national.

Source: Punch November 22, 2017 10:53 UTC