The Narcotics Control Bureau busted an LSD cartel which they claimed to be the biggest one operating in the country and seized more than 13,000 blots and a cash amount of Rs 26 lakhs along with the arrest of 3 persons.
The Narcotics Control Bureau on Tuesday busted the “biggest” darknet-based LSD cartel operating in India and they have seized more than 13,000 blots and Rs 26 lakh in cash and the arrest of three persons.
NCB Deputy Director General (operations and enforcement) Gyaneshwar Singh said that a cartel named ‘Zambada’ has a “high volume of business and supply chain” of a hallucinogenic category of drug and has been operating in the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, Canada, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkiye.
Singh said that young educated men within the age bracket of 21-25 years were operating the cartel.
The agency busted another LSD trafficking cartel in the last three months.
What is LSD?
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, is a synthetic chemical-based drug classified as a hallucinogen. This drug is frequently abused by young people and can cause severe health problems. LSD is odourless, colourless, and tasteless and is often applied to small squares of paper, also known as blots, which can be ingested orally.
How did they manage to bust the LSD cartel?
In June, the federal anti-narcotics agency reportedly seized a cache of 15,000 LSD blots which has been the highest-ever catch in one operation and they also arrested half-a-dozen people.
Gyaneshwar Singh said that they learnt after continuous operations that the largest cartel operating in LSD on the darknet – Zambada- operates from Delhi-NCR.
Further Singh revealed that through technical and human surveillance they identified two of the ground operators of this cartel and that led to the location of the “mastermind” of this cartel who was operating from Ballabgarh (Faridabad) in Haryana.
That is when the agency conducted multiple raids on the premises of these three people and they were able to seize reportedly 13,863 LSD blots, 428 grams MDMA (ecstasy), and the freezing of Rs 26.73 lakh “drug money”.
The NCB in a statement said that on the darknet the cartels are rated on a scale of 1-5 based on their potency of the drug sold by them and their customer service and the ‘Zambada’ cartel is the “only” cartel in the country with a so-called “5-star rating”.
Sean Hocking
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