When Telangana cops caught Nigerian nationwide Iwuala Udoka Stanley in Feb with greater than half a kilogram of cocaine, they thought they’d netted one among Hyderabad’s larger drug mules. But trawling by the info on his eight telephones they realised he might properly be one among India’s greatest drug lords. While they aren’t calling him India’s Pablo Escobar, Stanley’s modus operandi – sourcing medicine globally and supplying throughout India – is Escobaresque. Police say he controls a minimum of 30% of India’s drug market.
On Feb 6, Stanley was caught with medicine value Rs 8 crore. Senior police officers say he has contacts in Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Myanmar, indicating that he was procuring medicine from Afghanistan. He informed police he might import any drug from anyplace on the earth, together with cocaine from Africa by carriers who ingest it. International couriers landed his medicine in Mumbai, from the place they have been transported to his base in Goa.