THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Excise sleuths in Keralam have busted what the department described as the state’s biggest synthetic drug racket, arresting nine people, including two women from Kozhikode, who allegedly ran the ‘KB Cartel’ and planned to smuggle 5 to 20 kg of MDMA into the state every month.
In a Facebook post on Thursday night, Excise Minister M Liju congratulated the officers and said the arrests were made as part of ‘Operation Thunder’, launched under the Excise Department’s comprehensive anti-drug campaign ‘Mayangilla Kerala’.
The case began with the arrest of a 20-year-old woman from Thamarassery and a man from Kondotty after 3.5 kg of MDMA was seized from them near the Olavanna toll plaza on NH 66 in Kozhikode, he said.
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