The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has detained a former Bahrain police officer turned international drug cartel kingpin, a native of Kerala in Bengaluru, sources said on Tuesday. The Burea has launched a hunt for other drug peddlers in the case.

According to reports, the accused former police officer has been arrested in connection with the case of detection of 3.5 kilograms of Hashish oil worth Rs 1 crore at the Kochi airport on September 12 in which one person had been held. Since then the kingpin was eluding investigating officers. The accused had reportedly packed the drug consignments into boxes as a 'prasad' (a food or dish offering to a deity, which is later shared with worshippers) and also as Ayurveda medicines.

On investigation of the arrested person in the case of detection of 3.5 kilograms of Hashish oil, the role of a 52-year kingpin who worked as a police officer in Bahrain has emerged. The NCB also got to know about the international drug peddling network run by the former police officer. After the arrest of his associate, the kingpin had escaped to Bengaluru. The accused smuggled Hashish oil to the Gulf on cargo planes. He procured drugs from Manali in Himachal Pradesh and managed to transport them to Kochi in Kerala from Bengaluru, sources said.

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