Overview

• The seized assets comprise a luxury apartment in Jaypee Greens and a factory premises in Kasna Industrial Area, Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
• Investigators unearthed a clandestine amphetamine manufacturing lab in October 2024, recovering over 95 kilograms of the drug in both solid and liquid forms.
• Five suspects—a Tihar Jail warden, a Mexican national, a Mumbai chemist and two Delhi businessmen—were arrested during the joint NCB–Delhi Police Special Cell operation.
• Evidence indicates the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación financed the lab using cryptocurrency transfers to Dubai followed by cash delivery via hawala in three instalments.
• The NCB’s latest asset attachment under SAFEMA and NDPS provisions targets narco-financing channels to dismantle transnational drug syndicates.