Indian police in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) have seized LSD worth over $100,000 in a shipment to India from the United States with payments made in bitcoin.
Mumbai Police’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the bust on Wednesday, arresting five involved in the drug trafficking operation that included two college students, according to the Times of India.
The LSD drug consignment was worth ₹72,00,000 (approx. $107,800) and was sent via a courier from the United States by a friend of one of the accused, officials revealed. Indian police add that the drug trafficking operation has been smuggling LSD, an odorless and colorless drug that’s hard to detect, through courier services from the US in the past. The seizure, which contained 1,400 ‘microdots’ of LSD, represents the largest drug bust in recent times by the ANC.
Tellingly, perhaps, payments toward the drugs from India were made using bitcoin.
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