New Delhi June 6, 2023 (City Times): Partners in this drug group will contact you on Instagram to ask if you need drugs. If you are interested, the conversation will be transferred to the personal messaging application “Wicker Me”. Medicines (LSD only) will be shipped from the Netherlands or Poland, while payment will be made in cryptocurrency. This is how drug trafficking organizations disbanded by the Narcotics Control Board are used today to market India. The operation led to the NCB’s largest drug bust in 20 years, with the seizure of 15,000 LSD.LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamine, is a synthetic drug classified as a hallucinogen. Six people, some of them students, were arrested from various cities in India.
Cartel was advertising on the dark web
Cartel mastermind arrested in Jaipur. During the investigation, the agency learned that the cartel was advertising on the dark web, and also contacted Instagram users they believed were potential buyers. Darknet refers to deep secret Internet platforms that use the secrets of the Onion Router (ToR) to sell drugs, exchange pornographic images and other illegal activities to evade law enforcement inspection.
15,000 LSD stains seized from peddlers
All six arrested are tech savvy and have a habit of using private messages and secret websites to evade the authorities. Possession of 0.1 grams of LSD (a commercial amount of hallucinogen) is severely penalized. An NCB official said the 15,000 LSD stains seized were 2,500 times the amount of the business. NCB seized about 10 rupees worth of LSD.
Biggest drug racket caught in last 20 years, uses Darknet, Cryptocurrencies for transactions
