MUMBAI: The NCB raided some premises in Juhu and Goregaon on Monday and arrested two people, and its officials searched the cruise liner in the drug bust case on her return to Mumbai’s shores on Monday.
Three passengers from the ship were detained, with one of them carrying marijuana, officials claimed.
One of the suspects arrested after the Juhu and Goregaon raids has been identified as Shreyas Nair, from whom the NCB claimed to have seized an intermediate quantity of Ecstasy pills. The other person is suspected to be the main supplier, officials said.
“We have seized commercial quantity of Mephedrone or MD from him,” said Sameer Wankhede, zonal director of NCB. He said that they have also found that these accused have foreign links as they used to buy drugs through the dark net and made payments through the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
NCB officials said that the captain and the security of the cruise liner informed them three passengers had a brawl on board, causing damage to the property. They were believed to have consumed drugs, officials said.
The NCB team were questioning the trio at the time of going to press. One of the suspects from whom the drugs were found is likely to be arrested, sources said. The NCB also questioned one of the organisers of the party.
