We will send a request to Interpol for red corner notice against Mamta Kulkarni through CBI, said Paramveer Singh from Thane Police.
Former Bollywood actress Mamta Kulkarni has now been named an accused in drug racket case by Thane police. The police also said that some people from Bollywood are being investigated for their connections with Mamata Kulkarni and Vicky Goswami.
Police had called her husband Vicky Goswami as the kingpin of international drug cartel.
"According to the new evidences, Mamta Kulkarni (former actor) is now also an accused. We will send a request to Interpol for red corner notice against Mamta Kulkarni through CBI. We are verifying her bank accounts and investments. Her husband Vicky Goswami is already an accused," said Paramveer Singh from Thane Police.
Thane police had seized a total of 18.5 tonne of Ephedrine and 2.5 tonne of acetic anhydride in the last week of April.
During the investigation, it was found that Vicky Goswami was the alleged kingpin of the racket. Goswami is currently out on bail in a case where he was arrested by Kenyan police officials. He will soon be extradited from Kenya.
Goswami alleged that the US was pressurising India to extradite him and since he is afraid that America's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) may kidnap him, he will not come back to India. Goswami also claimed that Kulkarni was just a well wisher and not his wife.
The drug trail
It all began with the arrest of Sipren Chinassa, a Nigerian national, with 500g of ephedrine who led the cops to the manufacturing unit at Solpaur. Chinassa led the cops to Sagar Powale and Mayur Sukhdare, who were arrested in Thane for allegedly possessing around 2kg of ephedrine. This was followed by the arrest of Dhaneshwar Swamy with 5.50kg of ephedrine powder. After this Dnyaneshwar Dhimri, production manager from Solapur unit, was also arrested.
On further grilling, the investigation led to persons related to the company — Manoj Jain, Punit Shringi and Pradeep Singh Gill. "Members and directors of the company were directly connected to the Kenyan drug mafia king Vicky Goswami. Earlier, too, they had not disclosed the amount of drug that was being manufactured at the company," said a crime branch police officer.
He added: "The accused were planning to arrange a unit at Mombasa in Kenya were they can turn ephedrine into methamphetamine which is costlier in the international market. The Gujarat and Maharashtra police are working on this drug cartel while we have found that 4-5 persons are still absconding. We will arrest them soon."
With inputs from dna.
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