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Police
said 50-year-old Andoyi, a mechanical engineer, had been active in the
cocaine racket for over a decade and had been arrested twice in the
past.
 Authorities in India have arrested an alleged Nigerian drug kingpin, Folarin Abdulazees Andoyi.
Andoyi was arrested for possession of cocaine worth Rs 2.16 crore.
He is seen as the biggest and most crucial action of the anti-narcotics cell of Pune City police, India, in 2022.
Police said 50-year-old Andoyi, a mechanical engineer, had been
active in the cocaine racket for over a decade and had been arrested
twice in the past.
Indian Express reported on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, that the
crimes that he had been nabbed for, were not the reason Andoyi first
arrived in the country over a decade ago.
According to the police, Andoyi first came to India from Nigeria in 2010 on a business visa for work.
Senior police inspector Vinayak Gaikwad of the anti-narcotics cell said, “In
2010, he landed in Mumbai. Probe revealed that he worked with some
private establishments but soon started feeling that his income was not
enough to fulfill his needs. Meanwhile, he came in contact with another
Nigerian national involved in the narcotics trade, who suggested he sold
drugs to earn more money,"
"This Nigerian national was later deported by the police.
However, before leaving India, the Nigerian national handed over his
contacts in the drug syndicate to Andoyi. Using these contacts, Andoyi
allegedly got into the cocaine racket,” said Gaikwad.
In the latest arrest, Andoyi was nabbed from a car on the
Undri-Mantarwadi road in Pune on December 9, 2022. During searches, cops
said they recovered 1.81 kilograms of cocaine estimated at Rs
2,16,20,000.
The FIR in this case was registered at the Kondhwa police station
under sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)
Act.
During investigation, cops found Andoyi’s wife, identified as Lucy,
a native of Manipur, was also allegedly involved in the offence. She
was soon arrested and the couple is currently lodged in the Yerwada
Central Prison.
"Andoyi first came on record after his arrest by the Customs
Department in Mumbai in 2014 with possession of cocaine. He was later
released on baiL. We got to know he was married twice in the past to
women from his country. But around 2018, he got married to an Indian
woman, Lucy, hailing from Manipur. He continued to work with the drug
racketeers,” Gaikwad added.
In 2019, the Pune City police arrested him again, this time
allegedly with a substantial quantity of cocaine. He was released on
bail last year.
Police soon got to know that he had become active again in cocaine business and started zeroing in on him.
“He was residing in a residential society in Undri area. We
arrested him last month with cocaine worth about Rs 2.16 crore. Probe
into his cell phone details and other information revealed his wife was
also involved in the offence. Her phone and bank account was used for
the drugs trade. So, we arrested her in this case,” the officer added.
Police said Andoyi had allegedly procured cocaine from a Nigerian
woman residing in Thane area. Search is on for this woman, who is
suspected to be an important link in the cocaine racket in India.
Detailing Andoyi’s alleged modus operandi, inspector Gaikwad said
he brought cocaine to Pune from his contacts in Thane. He then sold the
contraband to the drug peddlers in Pune. These drug peddlers further
sold cocaine in small packets to customers in Pune city.
According to the figures obtained from the Pune City police, the
anti-narcotics cell has seized contraband worth Rs 5.37 crore from 94
accused persons arrested from different locations in the city in
separate actions from January 1 to December 31, 2022.
Seven persons, including Andoyi, were held for cocaine trade during
this period. Cocaine worth Rs 2,64,96,650 was allegedly seized from
them in four separate cases. Cops also arrested 29 persons for selling
Mephedrone (MD) in 19 cases. MD worth Rs 1.86 crore was recovered from
them.
As many as 46 persons were arrested by the anti-narcotics cell with
possession of marijuana in 39 cases, six persons for opium trade in two
cases, two with brown sugar in two offences and one with MDMA with
estimated worth of Rs 1.1 lakh. In other cases, a few persons were
arrested for allegedly selling charas and opium poppy.
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