TMI BlogED arrests drugs 'kingpin' from Punjab under PMLAX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ED arrests drugs 'kingpin' from Punjab under PMLA X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... andhar, the federal probe agency said in a statement. He is currently in Enforcement Directorate's (ED) custody. The agency had raided the premises of Chhabra in October last year. As per the ED, Chhabra was the kingpin of an international drug syndicate being run from Ludhiana in Punjab. "He managed to import drugs from Afghanistan in the name of shell/fake entities and supplied them further," ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the ED said in the statement. "Huge proceeds of crime were generated out of this illegal drug trade, which were infused in immovable properties, liquor business, and transferred out of India through different hawala channels," the ED said. The money laundering case against Chhabra and his associates stems from a complaint lodged by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) alleging that 20.32 kg of he ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... roin was seized from his possession sometime back. Chhabra and his associates were "involved" in the manufacturing and sale of illicit drugs; they used to process smuggled morphine/raw heroin through two Afghanistan nationals and distributed the processed heroin to various drug dealers, the ED said in a statement last year. PTI NES ARI X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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