The police arrested a Russian citizen and seized 218 gm of psilocybin mushrooms, 7.9 kg of mushroom buds, 2 kg of marijuana and 150 psilocybin mushroom spores (seeds)
The anti-narcotics cell of the Goa Police busted a 'magic mushroom' cultivation unit run from a rented room in Arambol, a coastal village in North Goa, and arrested a Russian nationwide after recovering 218 gm of psilocybin mushrooms, 7.9 kg of mushrooms, 2 kg. of marijuana and 150 psilocybin mushroom spores (seeds), something goes ₹1.70 crore within the worldwide market.
The arrested Russian nationwide has been recognized as 33-year-old Evgeny Morkovin.
The raid follows the arrest of an Israeli nationwide named Naar Yaakov final week for allegedly promoting “magic mushrooms”.
“ANC personnel raided the defendants' rented premises in Arambol. In the course of the search, the police seized a business amount of psilocybin mushrooms ₹8.72 lakh and a couple of kg of ganja price ₹2 thousand. It was throughout the raid that the ANC found that the mentioned Russian nationwide was not solely promoting the banned narcotics, but additionally planted psilocybin mushroom buds in quite a few glass jars to develop the contraband weighing round 7.93kg . ₹1.58 crore,” Superintendent of Police (ANC) Bossuet Silva mentioned.
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