How drug cartels use dark web to skip digital tracing
Investigators said on Tuesday that these gangs are headed by suppliers based in Nigeria. Gang members, including 16 Nigerians, a Nepalese citizen and an Indian woman from Mizoram, were arrested in seven cases."They used dark web to communicate the amount of drug required. The suppliers would ask them to collect consignments from specific locations or get them delivered from masked porters at locations agreed on in these online meetings," a police officer said.
The syndicates used multi-layers virtual private networks (VPNs) from prominent tech companies. "This prevents investigators from being able to trace the kingpins abroad. After arresting the suspects here (in NCR), when we attempt to contact their suppliers, the IP addresses keep bouncing from Japan to the Netherlands and other countries, causing a major roadblock in our investigation," the police officer said.
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Last week, TOI reported about a drug trafficking case that led cops to a multinational gang, which allegedly exploited dark web to orchestrate a multi-crore cocaine business in NCR. The gang operated from a "workshop" created in a rented house in Delhi's Chattarpur for three years before Gurgaon cops raided it on June 16. The accused, police had found, carried out transactions using digital currencies like Bitcoin, and distributed drugs at parties by employing women who could easily blend into the crowd.
On Tuesday, police said the accused foreigners lived in Delhi's Mehrauli, Dwarka, Govindpuri, Chattarpur and Uttam Nagar. Contraband recovered from their possession ranged from 12g of MDMA to 1kg Sulfa and 904g of cocaine. Investigators found that many of the accused had entered India on business, student or medical visas, which had expired. "To avoid deportation for overstaying, foreigners get involved in criminal activities," the police officer said.
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