A businessman, who is alleged to be the leader of an International drug trafficking syndicate responsible for recruiting and sponsoring carriers abroad, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
The businessman, 37, was arrested after the anti-narcotics agency uncovered three laboratories in his home town in Anambra State. The laboratories were used for the production of methamphetamine, a banned substance.
The Chairman of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, while addressing newsmen on Wednesday, described the arrest as the latest outstanding operational success recorded by the agency, adding that the agency discovered that the suspect shuttled between his home town in Anambra and Isolo, Lagos State, where he resides.
“He hides under the cover of motorcycle parts business in running a drug cell that has international affiliation.
“He specializes in recruiting and sponsoring drug couriers to China, Malaysia and Turkey. He also pays his couriers an average of $5,000 per trip.
“The suspect has two Nigerian international passports and one Ghanaian passport, all bearing his photographs with different names. Two other passports belonging to suspected drug couriers were also seized.
“He hired one Raphael, who is a professional methamphetamine cook to work for him. He pays him N500,000 for his service and N700,000 for the purchase of precursor chemicals per production circle.
“The production capacity per cycle is 14kg. As a result of the indicting surveillance report, he was arrested in his home country,” Giade said.
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