Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) on Friday night arrested two African women with 4 kg cocaine worth rupees 30 crores from a hotel situated near IGI airport in India. According to the NCB, the accused have been identified as Zambian national Thelma Mkandawire (38) and Tanzanian Pamela D Kiritta (41).
NCB based on a tip-off was tracking Mkandawire after she landed from Sao Paulo (Brazil) via Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and intercepted her when she checked in a hotel in the Mahipalpur area even as Kiritta came there to allegedly obtain the consignment she was carrying.
Kiritta was staying in an apartment in the Vasant Kunj area of south Delhi, since she came to India early this year in January, they added. Kiritta informed she had visited India nine times since 2006 and she had been to other countries like Ecuador and Kenya.She was working for a South African man here, they said adding, that the agency was probing the women's international and Indian contacts.
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