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In the past three years, the NCB has found the use of dark web and cryptocurrency in at least 38 cases across India...
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)s Mumbai zonal unit, which recently seized synthetic drugs worth around 3 crore allegedly smuggled to Mumbai by an international trafficking syndicate, is investigating if the accused used dark web and cryptocurrency in their transactions to avoid detection..
The narcotics, which came in parcels, had arrived at the Foreign Post Office (FPO), Mumbai, over the past two months from the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands and were allegedly meant for distribution in Pune, agency officers said..
In 2016, the NCB had, for the first time, detected the use of dark web and cryptocurrency by narcotics traffickers dealing with synthetic party drugs, sources said..
NCBs Delhi zonal unit recently busted two international drug syndicates operating through the dark net and using cryptocurrency, arrested 22 people, and seized 29,103 blots of the LSD..
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