2 Nigerians held with heroin
The Delhi police on Monday arrested two Nigerians, including an MBA, for allegedly possessing 1.2 kg heroin worth around Rs 1.2 crore in international market.
According to deputy commissioner of police Ashok Chand, the duo had concealed the heroin in seats of bicycles and were intending to send the contraband through postal parcel service.
Richard Nwafor (38), an MBA, and Chris Chinonye (32) were apprehended from Gole Dakhana on Saturday on a tip off.
“We got a tip off that two Nigerians would come to Gole Dakhana for booking parcels containing heroin for sending it to Nigeria. We acted on it and arrested two persons in that connection,” he said. The seized heroin was concealed in 20 bicycle seats and kept inside polythene pouches and after being wrapped with carbon was concealed between the upper portion of the seat and the sponge inside it, Chand said. Nwafor came to Delhi in June this year. After his graduation, he started his own business of readymade garments in Nigeria, he said. “Nwafor used to import readymade garments from China and Dubai. He frequently travelled to these countries. In 2009, he incurred huge loss in his business as his counterparts in China and Dubai cheated him.”
“To overcome the financial crisis, he started doing this business in India. He contacted one of his friends Ikonne Livinus. Livinus gave Nwafor a consignment of heroin for sending it to Nigeria. Nwafor purchased cycle seats and after concealing heroin in them, he wanted to send them to Nigeria by post,” Mr Chand said.
Chinonye came to Mumbai in 2008 on a business visa. “He also used to export readymade garments from India to Nigeria. At the end of 2009, he came to Delhi and started trafficking heroin,” Mr Chand said.
Post new comment