New Delhi: In a major crackdown, the Delhi Police Crime Branch has dismantled a ₹100-crore transnational cocaine trafficking syndicate, arresting five foreign nationals who used an encrypted, tech-driven delivery system to smuggle drugs across Delhi.
Officials said the syndicate functioned like a startup—leveraging encrypted messaging apps, multi-level delivery personnel, and hawala-style money laundering. The mastermind, identified as Callistus alias Kallis, operated from Nigeria while his nephew Kameni Philipp, a Cameroonian national, oversaw Indian operations from Chhatarpur.
According to Additional DCP (Crime Branch) Mangesh Kashyap, the network imported Colombian cocaine, disguised it in luggage using Indian women couriers, and processed it locally by mixing with chemicals to multiply street volume.
🚨INTERNATIONAL DRUG CARTEL BUSTED BY AGS, CRIME BRANCH, DELHI UNDER THE NASHA MUKTH BHARAT ABHIYAN🚨
— Crime Branch Delhi Police (@CrimeBranchDP) July 25, 2025
💥 NIGERIAN NATIONAL KINGPIN’S INDIA-BASED NARCOTICS NETWORK BUSTED! 💥
🔴 A GLOBAL CRIMINAL NETWORK SMASHED – MASSIVE OPERATION SUCCESS!
🔍 KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
✅ Massive Drug… pic.twitter.com/IzWC3tzS6D
The syndicate had a layered structure:
- Level A handled storage and logistics
- Level B managed redistribution and customer data
- Level C operatives delivered to customers, often dressed in specific uniforms and directed via encrypted Nigerian channels
Delivery timings mimicked food delivery models, while payments were routed through informal hawala networks, laundering over 85 crore Naira in six months.
The accused also used international courier services to export drugs to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the UK, and Malaysia, hiding MDMA pills inside legitimate shipments like clothing.
Among those arrested:
- Kameni Philipp, the Indian head, held a forged Cameroonian passport
- Godwin John alias Adore, managed cash and storage
- Kelechi Chikwe alias Victor, worked as a delivery boy in Vasant Kunj
- Koulaie Philippe, illegally residing in India, carried out timed street deliveries
- Ibe Chinedu Austin, evaded arrest using forged documents and handled ₹1 crore/month in Vasant Kunj drug sales
Police say more arrests are expected in the coming days as financial handlers and logistics coordinators remain at large.
