Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) in connection with the international drug trafficking syndicate allegedly led by Navin Gurunath Chichkar. A 30-year-old film graduate with a background in criminal psychology from London, is accused in the Rs 200-crore drug haul case and is alleged to have orchestrated a transnational narcotics network that smuggled drugs worth an estimated Rs 1,128 crore into India over the past two years.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which had been investigating the syndicate, had previously seized assets worth Rs 10.07 crore, including 15 bank accounts and five immovable properties in Maharashtra, believed to be proceeds from Chichkar's illicit activities. Following the registration of the ECIR

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