The accused in the ephedrine drug racket busted by the Customs and Central Excise Department, Bengaluru, Kuppuswamy Arunachalam Venkatesam, who allegedly booked the Ephedrine parcel at a private courier in Vijayawada, had decided to operate from Andhra Pradesh to avoid the dragnet laid by the enforcement agencies in Chennai, the police have said.
A native of Vanambadi village on the Andhra Pradesdh-Tamil Nadu border, Arunachalam was working in an electronic shop in Burma Bazar. He was an expert in smuggling electronic goods from Dubai and other places, the police said.
