Durov was arrested in France last month over allegations of criminal activity on his platform including child sexual abuse and drug trafficking. In his first public remarks since the arrest, Durov said French authorities should have reached him for assistance instead of detaining him.
Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada and his former partner El Chapo's son were arrested while landing in a private plane in the El Paso area. The Sinaloa drug cartel co-founded by Zambada has been increasingly targeted by US authorities, who accuse it of supplying the deadly fentanyl drug.
The Enforcement Directorate is understood to have recovered some narcotics and arms during the searches that were launched on Thursday at about 10 locations in Sheron, Nausheran Pannuan and Bugha villages of Tarn Taran.
Drug-related shootings in Puerto Rico are rare despite it being despite it being a transit point for multimillion-dollar drug shipments out of South America. Among the dead were three men and two women, while the brother of Catano town mayor was critically wounded.
Ecuador has been rocked by several instances of violent attacks after President Daniel Noboa launched a virtual war against drug gangs. After the assassination of a presidential candidate, the country has seen kidnappings of several police officers and public executions.
The recovery was made during the search of a tractor-trolley loaded with straw.
Operation Garuda: A senior CBI official said that global operation was initiated in close coordination with Interpol and NCB for combating smuggling of illicit drugs and psychotropic substances.
A drug trafficking syndicate that was operating over the darknet has been busted by Narcotics Control Bureau. The syndicate was being operated using internet pharmacy with 9 websites registered at various locations including Delhi, UP, Uttarakhand in India and having tentacles in USA, UK, Canada, and the Philippines.
Eight Pakistan nationals were apprehended from the mid-sea off Gujarat coast for drug trafficking on Thursday
After spending nearly two years in jail, the Indian couple convicted for 10-years in a drug trafficking case in Qatar, would soon return home after they were acquitted of the charges, a Narcotics Control Bureau official said on Tuesday.
Oniba and Sharique Qureshi went on their 'second honeymoon' to Qatar in 2019. They were arrested at the Hamad International Airport in Doha for allegedly carrying 4.1 kg of hashish.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will approach authorities in Qatar through diplomatic channels to bring back an Indian couple who have been sentenced to ten years in imprisonment there on drug charges.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Kishan on Monday raised the issue of drug trafficking in Bollywood, during the Lok Sabha session. He appealed to the Centre to thwart any attempts of drug smuggling from Pakistan and China via Punjab and Nepal.
An NCB press release said that concerted and sustained operations against drug trafficking not only resulted in seizure of drugs but also and arrest of perpetrators around the country.
In continuum with the DEA probe, in mid August this year, a US judge sentenced a leading Kenyan drug trafficker, Baktash Akasha, to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to a conspiracy to import heroin and methamphetamine and other crimes.
Four members, including a British woman, of an organised crime group have been convicted of smuggling 1.2 million pounds worth of heroin from Pakistan into the UK via the post.
Speaking at the inaugural session of BIMSTEC summit, PM Modi expressed India’s willingness to work with the member states for enhancing regional connectivity in the region.
Speaking at a White House summit on the opioid epidemic on Thursday, Trump threatened to sue companies that manufacture painkillers with an eye toward halting the opioid addiction epidemic in US.
US authorities called Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami an ‘international drug trafficker’ and slapped severe sanctions on him. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Monday that El Aissami had
In yet another embarrassment for Islamabad, a UN report has revealed that Pakistan is the main country through which narcotics produced in Afghanistan are transported to the rest of the world.
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