New Delhi: A producer of south India’s film industry has been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs worth over Rs 2,000 crore out of the country.
Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK functionary who later worked in the film industry, was nabbed following a four-month manhunt, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said on Saturday.
Naming Sadiq as ‘kingpin’ of the India-Australia-New Zealand drugs trafficking network, NCB claimed he has smuggled Rs 2,000-crore drugs to Australia and New Zealand.
“He sent 3,500 kg pseudoephedrine abroad over 45 times,” said an official.
Sadiq has been involved with four films so far, the last one due to release later this month.
Last week, authorities seized methamphetamine worth Rs 180 crore from two railway passengers in Madurai and a dump yard in Chennai. The consignment was reportedly meant to be smuggled to Sri Lanka.
