Chennai: Edwin Enrique, the Colombian arrested with 2.35 kg of cocaine from Chennai airport, is an ex-armyman and truck driver-cum-professional boxer rolled into one as also a narcotics peddler, operating for a dreaded drug cartel of Bogota, the capital city of Colombia.He was carrying a fake letter of All India Boxing Association, which seems to have helped him get a visa to visit India.
The cocaine he was carrying was pure in form and directly procured from the production belt in South America.
According to Prem Anand Sinha, zonal director, narcotics control bureau (NCB), Chennai, his team, that arrested the Colombian on his arrival from Brazilian capital Rio de Janeiro, is currently trying to zero in on the receiver who was supposed to collect the Rs10 crore worth drug from him. The Colombian was carrying 219 marker pens filled with the 2.35 kg cocaine when sleuths picked him up from Chennai international terminal.
Each pen had 10 gm of cocaine stuffed into it. The NCB sleuths believe that the cocaine was meant for supply not only in Chennai but also in other cities across the country.“Enrique was enlisted with Colombian army; but, he came out of it and took up a truck driver’s job. He is also a professional boxer and was carrying forged All India Boxing Association letter at the time of the arrest,” an NCB official said.
Though he was carrying a three-month visa from June, Enrique was planning to leave the country on July 9. NCB officials believe that the latest seizure, along with the three other cocaine seizures in the last six months in Chennai, have dealt a severe blow to the cocaine syndicate operating in south India.
