Overview
- Five suspects were detained in two cases filed at Rohania and Sarnath, where police say fake pharmaceutical entities and forged documents were used to traffic codeine-laced syrups.
- The arrested were identified as Swapnil Kesari, Dinesh Yadav, Ashish Yadav, Vishnu Pandey and Lokesh Agarwal, with investigators linking their activities to shell firms and fake GST invoicing.
- Police reports and investigative accounts point to a hawala network that moved proceeds through dozens of shell companies, with transactions estimated at roughly ₹23 crore across the two case clusters and about ₹40 crore overall.
- Investigators describe a supply chain sending syrups to Bihar, West Bengal and Bangladesh at inflated prices, with profits allegedly converted into gold in West Bengal and routed back through hawala using coded notes and terms.
- The SIT says Jaiswal carries a ₹50,000 reward and a lookout notice, assets tied to him and his family have been placed before a court for seizure, and the wider state crackdown has logged 79 cases, 225 accused named and raids at 134 firms.