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Nigerian caught peddling drugs for third time in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Central Crime Branch sleuths arrested a 36-year-old Nigerian on charges of drug peddling and recovered 5kg of MDMA worth over Rs 5 crore from him. Police records show Ibrahim Bakayoku was earlier arrested by Himachal Pradesh cops in 2019 and by Marathahalli police in 2024 on similar charges.

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In another arrest, drug peddler Oc Okiol, 30, a Senegalese living in Huskur, was caught with MDMA, cocaine, hydro ganja, LSD pills and strips, all worth Rs 1.5 crore.Okiol was arrested in 2024 on drug-peddling charges.

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