The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has seized a big cache of cash, gold and tablets, and has arrested one man or woman in reference to the Indo-Sri Lankan unlawful tablets, hands exchange and hawala racket case geared toward the revival of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the organisation stated on Friday. The anti-terror organisation performed searches on Thursday, on the Chennai residential and commercial enterprise premises of 8 suspects withinside the case.
During the searches, it seized a big cache of cash, gold bars, virtual devices (cell phones, reminiscence cards), tablets and documents, along side different incriminating material. The organisation has additionally arrested one man or woman throughout the raids. He has been diagnosed as Ayyappan Nandhu. This took the quantity of overall arrests withinside the Tamil Nadu case to 14.
As in line with NIA, Nandhu has been discovered to be handling the drug exchange on behalf of Muhammed Asmin, a Sri Lankan refugee and a drug trafficker who had conspired with different accused to restore LTTE via tablets and hands exchange.
Other thirteen humans have been arrested in advance in December 2022 as a part of raids performed in 21 places in Tamil Nadu following the registration of the case via way of means of the NIA in July 2022. The in advance raids had protected the lodging allocated to 9 accused in Special Detention Camp, Trichy.
“Investigations into the case have proven that the proceeds of medication and hands exchange in Sri Lanka have been obtained in India via Hawala agents, such as one Shahid Ali of Chennai,” stated the NIA. It turned into in addition discovered that the Hawala transactions to acquire the technique of Drugs and Arms exchange have been executed via inns and organizations primarily based totally in Mannadi, Chennai, stated the organisation.
Thursday`s seizure protected ₹ sixty eight lakh Indian forex and 1,000 Singapore Dollars, 9 Gold Biscuits (overall three hundred gram) from the store of Shahid Ali. The NIA has additionally recovered ₹ 12 Lakhs in Indian forex from the Hotel – Orange Palace at Chennai.
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