A 42-year-old Nigerian, Samuel Uche, has been arrested for drug peddling in Nellore city, India.
Also arrested were Yehiram Nunes, 35, from Guinea-Bissau, and two Indians – V Lakshminarayana, 23, from Pallavaram in Chennai and Shaik Sadiq, 21, a degree student from Nellore city.
The police seized 1.04 grams of cocaine, 600 mg LSD, 900 mg MDMA, and a vehicle.
Addressing the media on Monday, the police said that Sadiq, a student of a private degree college in the city, was addicted to drugs and used to purchase them from Lakshminarayana, Uche and Nunes and supply it to his friends in Nellore.
Lakshminarayana used to procure drugs from his friend Nawaz.
He used to order synthetic drugs online by accessing banned websites selling contraband through Tor open-source software and made payments in Bitcoins.
Police also said that Uche and Nunes used to purchase drugs from an unnamed person in Bengaluru and supply it to students.
It also said that Samuel and Yehiram were in the country on expired visas.
