Hyderabad Police on money trail in drug racket case

Hyderabad: The police are now analysing the bank accounts maintained by the eight suspects including prime kingpin Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony, who were arrested in the international drug trafficking case busted by Hyderabad Police early this month. Tony, along with seven businessmen and two office boys, was arrested by the Hyderabad Police for being […]

Hyderabad: The police are now analysing the bank accounts maintained by the eight suspects including prime kingpin Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony, who were arrested in the international drug trafficking case busted by Hyderabad Police early this month.

Tony, along with seven businessmen and two office boys, was arrested by the Hyderabad Police for being part of the drug syndicate. The police had arrested Tony from Mumbai after maintaining surveillance on him for weeks and identified the businessmen from the city. Tony had supplied cocaine to several customers, mostly businessmen, in Hyderabad, Mumbai and other places in the country through his agents.

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The police are now analyzing the payments received by Tony through various sources through sale of drugs and are on money trail to know where the money was used or sent by him. It came to light during investigation that the money was transferred through UPI mode to the agents of Tony.

The court had granted five day custody of Tony to Punjagutta police and he was taken from Central Prison Chanchalguda to Punjagutta police station on Saturday.

The police had identified a few more businessmen in the city who were purchasing drugs from Tony and his associates.