Tramadol seizure: Financial Intelligence Unit to probe case

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 18

The Amritsar rural police have written to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for carrying out investigation on the suspects nabbed in the case of seizure of huge quantity of opioid-based painkiller tramadol from two places in Himachal Pradesh.

The step was taken for threadbare investigation into financial transactions made by them. The police have so far arrested 10 persons, including alleged owner of the HP firm — Unique Formulation — Munish Mohan and Delhi Mansi Medical Store owner Prem Kumar Jha.

SSP Amritsar Rural Dhruv Dahiya confirmed the development, adding that they had written to the FIU in this regard.

Meanwhile, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is also likely to interrogate the suspects in connection with the seizure of a huge quantity of the banned drug from two places in Delhi.

The NCB had confiscated 10 lakh tramadol capsules, 5 lakh tablets besides, 2,200 syrups in the NCR this month. One consignment originated from a firm in Kala Amb in HP and the other was from Unique Formulations. One of the consignments was to be delivered to Prem Kumar Jha, said an official privy to the investigations.