Customs have busted a racket of smuggling of psychotropic drugs outside the country. The department is now thelookout on the main operator of the gang who used to smuggle drugs into the United States and other countries under the guise of sending drugs.

The Customs Department sources said that the drug mafia syndicate, and is an active business man, Navrangpura, Birjadi Abbas, is the boss and the gang. However, the Department says that he is on the run, or have moved the court is not bailable behind him.

The sources said that Birjadi had played a central role in the purchase orders had purchased drugs in limited commercial quantities, packaging for export and then transferred to a courier company for the illegal export.

As in the case, the Customs Service has seized 12 bags after finding them to be a suspect.

During the scan, they discovered that three of the envelopes contained packets of drugs. When checking the description of the drugs offered to the department, a total of 12 out of the package, drugs, five packages were not as described.

The Customs Service sends samples to the FSL for tests and found that the packages containing psychotropic substances like Hydrocodone, zolpidem, lorazepam, diazepam, alprazolam and clonazepam. The department was called Jayanti Patel and Ashok Patel, a courier partner. Partners confessed that the consignment has been given to them by Birjadi.

During questioning, Jayanti had in his statement revealed that the plots have been reserved by Abbas. The item has been reserved to be sent to the United States, where Firdosh would receive the same. Ashok in his statement admitted that he had received money from Abbas for the rapid removal of packages. Abbas had paid a sum of Jayanti RS45, 000 and Rs63, 000 in two installments to Ashok, Ashok admitted.

Based on opinions Patel had “customs department has undertaken other studies have shown that Birjadi was the man behind the gang. But once his name comes up, it disappears, sources in the Customs Department said.