Opposing bail plea of 4 accused of smuggling, Mumbai Police say contraband used to make millions of pills, led to deaths

Mumbai | Friday | 19th April, 2019

Summary:

“This is now a case of a controlled substance as opposed to a narcotic substance, of being a case of preparation of a controlled substance. The police argued the distribution and sale of 38 million fentanyl pills would be responsible for a lot of deaths globally. The DEA had then estimated that the amount of 1-Phenethyl-4-Piperidone would be sufficient to produce 19 million fentanyl pills valued at $570 million. On Thursday, while opposing a bail plea filed by the accused, the police said that the accused were in possession of a large amount of a controlled substance that was manufactured in a factory in Rajkot, Gujarat. A senior police officer said that the accused were going to send the substance to Mexico by fraudulent means..