March,28,2017:
They are accused of running a well-oiled international Drug cartel.
Investigators probing Rs 2,000 crore drug bust case have got a shot in the arm as a Special Court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against former Bollywood actor Mamta Kulkarni and alleged international drug lord Vijaygiri aka Vicky Goswami.
The warrants were issued by the special court of Sh. H M Patwardhan on Monday.
The investigators claimed to have got "clinching evidence" against them and based on which they want to file a chargesheet, under the NDPS Act, 1985 but duo are declared absconding since their names cropped up in drug bust, stated a Senior Police officer.
Their names had cropped up during the probe by Thane police in Rs 2,000 crore drug bust. They were arrested in November 2014 in a sting operation by US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers posing as Colombian drug dealers. Goswami and his aides were accused of conspiring to ship at least 98 kg of high-grade heroin and methamphetamine to US.
On April 14, Thane crime branch seized over 20 tonnes of ephedrine and 2.5 tonnes of acetic anhydride, both banned party drugs from a pharmaceutical factory in Solapur and other locations in Thane and Mumbai.
Investigations led sleuths to involvement of Goswami and Kenyan based international drug mafia involved in the racket.
In September 2016, a battery of legal hawks, some from abroad, refuted involvement of Mamta in the case.
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