MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (
NCB
) on Tuesday arrested four more persons in the drug racket case linked to the Cordelia cruise liner's Empress ship.
Those arrested include Abdul Kamdar shaikh (30), Shreya’s Surender Nair (23), Manish Rajgaria (30) and Avion sahu (30).
The NCB officials claim to have recovered 2.5 grams of ecstasy and 54.3 grams of Mephedrone MD from Nair and shaikh.
Sources said Rajgaria and Sahu are the two guests who were caught from the Cordelia cruise on Monday.
Sahu is believed to be a supplier of drugs to Ishmeet Chadha and Mahak Jaswal.
With these four new arrests, the total number of arrests touched 12.
All the accused are being produced before the 8th metropolitan magistrate for remand.
On Monday, all the eight accused — including Shah Rukh Khan’s son
Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Seth Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Vikrant Chhoker, Ismeet Singh, Nupur Sarika, Gomit Chopra and Mohak Jaswal — were produced before Mumbai's Esplanade Court, which remanded them to the NCB custody till October 7.
The NCB officials said that they have also found that these accused have foreign links as they used to buy drugs from the dark net and make payments through the cryptocurrency-Bitcoin.
Officials said that they have also found WhatsApp chats discussing drugs.
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