Officials said the action was carried out by the Delhi zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) after they intercepted an incoming foreign parcel that contained 500 gms of cocaine.
NCB officials, they said, found that the Nigerian, identified as Bartholomew Okoh alias Prince, was the alleged kingpin of the racket with aid from two locals identified as A Rehman and Md Hanif.
The duo were handling the said illicit parcel that had come from Port of Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, on behalf of Okoh, a resident of Vikaspuri, they said.
Okoh was living in India since 2012, they said.
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