Bengaluru: CCB sleuths booked a drug peddler from Kerala under Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA) and seized Rs 8.7 lakh from his bank accounts and in cash.
The peddler, Amir Khan, 32, was nabbed in Nov last year at Amruthahalli. MDMA, valued at Rs 71 lakh, was seized from him and a case registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. When Amir was in Central Prison, his two associates from Bengaluru used to visit him. Based on Amir’s instructions, they would deliver drugs while Amir received money into his and his relatives’ accounts.

Police booked Amir under Karnataka Prisons Act in Feb. They found he was sourcing drugs from peddlers in neighbouring states and selling them in Bengaluru. As much as Rs 3.9 lakh was found in his account and Rs 81,000 in a relative’s account; Rs 4 lakh was also seized in cash.