ED Files ECIR in ₹7600 Crore Drug Case, Conducts Raids Across Delhi-NCR, and Mumbai

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has intensified its investigation into a massive drug-related money laundering case involving a staggering ₹7600 crore. According to ED sources,  a money laundering case has been filed into the recent narcotics seizure in the national capital and conducted searches in Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram and some other cities. ED sources said the probe agency raided the premises of various accused and suspects including that of Tushar Goel and his wife in the Vasant Enclave and Rajouri Garden areas of Delhi.     

The Raids Included Following Key Locations

• Residential Premises of Tushar Goel: Located in Vasant Enclave, Delhi.
• Residential Premises of Tushar Goel and His Wife: Situated in Rajouri Garden, Delhi.
• Residential Premises of Himanshu Kumar: Found in Prem Nagar, Delhi.
• Residential Premises of Bharat Kumar: Located in Nalasolpara, Mumbai.
• Business Premises of Tushar Books Publication Private Limited and Tulip Publications Private Limited: Both in Jhandewalan, Delhi.
• Business Premises of ABN Buildtech Private Limited: Located in Gurugram.   

The Delhi Police Special Cell on October 2 seized over 560 kg cocaine and 40 kg hydroponic marijuana, estimated to be worth Rs 5,620 crore, from a godown in the Mahipalpur area of south Delhi.  

In the second such narcotics haul, the Delhi Police Thursday seized 208 kg of cocaine worth Rs 2,080 crore from a rented shop in west Delhi. The second case is linked to the October 2 case. The drug was kept concealed in plastic packets of snacks with "Tasty Treat" and "Chatpata Mixture" written on them. About 20-25 such packets kept in cartons were seized from the small shop in west Delhi's Ramesh Nagar area. The ED is probing this drug haul too, they said.

A total of seven persons have been arrested by the police till now in the case.

LOCs Issued Against 6 Including UK National

Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has issued look-out circulars (LOCs) against six people, including an Indian-origin UK national who fled the country before the latest recovery of 208 kg of the drug from west Delhi. According to police sources, the UK national, Savinder Singh, came to India last month to supervise the transportation and delivery of the 208-kg consignment suspected to have been brought from South American countries.

The sources said Singh spent around 25 days in three separate locations in Delhi before fleeing to the United Kingdom soon after the arrest of the first four members of the syndicate. These arrests were effected on October 2. "As of now, we have issued LOCs against half a dozen people, some of them foreign nationals. One of them is the person who kept 208 kg of cocaine hidden in west Delhi's Ramesh Nagar and fled to the UK," a police officer, who is privy to the investigations, said.

The officer said a dozen people suspected to be involved in the syndicate are on the radar of the Delhi Police.

Earlier, police had issued a LOC against the syndicate's kingpin, Virender Basoya alias Veeru, who is believed to be staying in Dubai. Basoya was allegedly running the syndicate with the help of India-based Tushar Goyal and UK-based Jitender Gill alias Jassi and Savinder Singh, police said.

Goyal and Gill have been arrested while Basoya and Singh are yet to be nabbed, the officer said.