Man uses dark web to buy ganja from Canada, held
The legalisation of marijuana in Canada and parts of the US is having a telling effect in Chennai, with the officials from the Postal Intelligence wing of the Customs finding dozens of packets of ganja in postal parcels arriving from Canada, the US and England. These are bought on the dark web, with the payments made through bitcoins to avoid detection and sent to India through postal parcels.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-11-23 19:06 GMT
Chennai
According to Customs Commissioner at the airport, Parama Guru K from Chennai, who had placed an order for 112 grams of ganga from Canada through dark web using his friend’s address was arrested. He paid Rs 45,000 for the narcotic, which was paid through bitcoin.
Following a tip off that such narcotic substances were being smuggled from abroad through foreign postal parcels, officials from Postal Intelligence of the Customs intercepted some parcels and seized 31 such consignments brought from these countries, totally weighing four kg, in just the last three months.
The ganja parcels were packed in multilayer vacuum compressed plastic sealed covers, which had coffee powder to mask the smell of the drug.
In their investigations, they found that consignee names were fake. In some cases, the persons named as consignees said their names were misused.
“It is observed that relaxation given by some Western countries like Canada and some States of USA in the recent times in the use of ganja triggered its smuggling from these countries,” the Commissioner said in a statement on Saturday.
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