Bangalore: A 29-year-old Nigerian man has been arrested for allegedly selling drugs and several lakhs of narcotic drugs were recovered from him, police said on Saturday.
Seventy three grams of cocaine, some powder and capsules of MDA (a narcotic) and two mobile phones were seized from Oniyama Innocent Iffchukwa, they said. Iffchukwa was allegedly selling drugs in Udayanagar in Mahadevapura locality here. He had arrived in India in 2009 on a business visa, police said.
After suffering heavy losses in business, Iffchukwa had, along with friends, started selling drugs in Mumbai, they added. His visa had expired in May 2009. He had come to Bangalore a month ago, police said. Iffchukwa`s friend who assisted him in selling drugs is absconding and efforts are on to apprehend him, they said. PTI