NCB nails online pharmacy for supplying psychotropic medicines to foreign countries from Hyderabad

Hyderabad, May 11, 2022:

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has nailed an online pharmacy store run by a private company which was involved in supplying psychotropic medicine to foreign countries like United States and other European countries from Hyderabad.

According to Sanjay Kumar Sigh, Deputy Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau, a business man from Hyderabad city was allegedly operating an online pharmacy and supplying psychotropic medicines for recreational use to the United States and other countries.

Upon receiving a tip-off, the NCB authorities conducted searches at the residence and offices of the businessman and seized Rs. 3.71 crore in cash, mobile phones. laptops and other electronic gadgets.

“We have arrested one person, who is a businessman running a private company named JR Infinity Private Limited located in Domalaguda in Hyderabad, upon receiving special inputs about the illegal operation of online pharmacy which was involved in diverting and supplying psychotropic medicines for recreational use in US,” informed Sanjay Kumar.

Further investigations by the NCB authorities revealed that the employees of JR Infinity contacted customers in the United States and other countries over email and VoIP calls and offered various pharma drugs including those covered under NDPS Act for recreational use.

It is learnt that the JR company employees used to contact the customers and after collecting the details like name address and email id etc a payment link used to be sent to the customers. The customers were also offered various payment modes like account transfer, credit card, PayPal, bit coin and other modes. Up on payment, the company used to illicitly divert and dispatch pharma drugs to the customers in the US and other countries.

The NCB also revealed that during the past two years, more than 1,000 illicit diversions and shipments of drugs have happened from India to United States alone.

It is understood that most of the psychotropic drugs that were supplied by the private company to customers in US included oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, diazepam, lorazepam, clonazepam, zoldidem, tramadol and others. Pharmabiz