The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Jalandhar has exposed the interstate drug smuggling network running in Punjab, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. ED Jalandhar officials said that this raid lasted for three days from June 17 to 19.
ED has started investigating the bank accounts of these pharma companies and many other well-known companies are on the radar. In this, raids were conducted on the homes, offices, warehouses and supply chains of six pharma companies and about 22 people associated with them. ED Jalandhar raided a total of 16 locations in six states. ED officials said that during the raid, many big evidences have been found regarding interstate drug smuggling and money laundering, which will reveal the involvement of many famous pharma companies of North India in this network in the coming days.
During the raid, ED seized many documents, digital records, mobile phones, laptops and remains of deliberately destroyed records. Investigation has revealed that these pharma companies used to supply Tramadol, Alprazolam and other psychotropic drugs and narcotics to different people on a large scale. These people further sold these drugs in the open market at high prices.
These companies carried out money laundering
A senior officer of ED Jalandhar said that investigation of bank accounts of six pharma companies involved in interstate drug smuggling and money laundering, including M/s Biogenetic Drugs Pvt. Ltd., M/s CB Healthcare, M/s Similax Pharmachem Drugs Industries, M/s Aster Pharma and M/s Sol Health Care Pvt. Ltd., Alex Paliwal and others has been started.
