Hyderabad, Oct 10 (IANS) Telangana’s Eagle Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) has seized Rs 3 crore from a hawala establishment allegedly used for laundering drug proceeds, officials said on Friday.

The special anti-drugs task force seized the money in an operation in Mumbai and also arrested Dargaram Rataji Prajapati, a key accused in a nationwide hawala network used to channel proceeds of drug trafficking for Nigerian cartels, EAGLE said here.

Prajapati had earlier managed to escape during a raid on Bharat Kumar Chaganlal and Company in Mumbai.

The investigations revealed that the firm was being used as a front to move drug funds through hawala channels on behalf of foreign drug syndicates.

A special team of EAGLE led by Inspector K. Praveen Kumar arrested Prajapati.

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