Click to play videoKolkata: A four-year old Kolkata-based software firm, Xpose Technologies was allegedly trafficking psychotropic substances through the Internet until its CEO Sanjay Kedia was arrested on Monday.
Xpose has collaborations in the US and Europe, and employs over 350 people. The Narcotics Control Bureau, which was led into the investigation by American sleuths, claims the software firm sold a restricted drug called Phentermine to people in the US and Canada through 29 online pharmacies, and money went into bank accounts in several countries.
The police took nearly a year to close the dragnet on the CEO.
"All the digital signatures, the servers, so many evidence, which is of, you can say, not the routine kind of evidence. It is a highly technology based investigation, which we have conducted. And only after we have seized all those evidences, we have taken the step of registering a case and arresting the accused,” says director, Narcotics Control Bureau, Eastern Zonal Unit, Sandeep Mittal.
The Narcotics Control Bureau also claims to have frozen more than 20 bank accounts in India, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and the US, and recovered over Rs 6.5 crore.
Officials of the software firm, however, rebut charges leveled against their CEO, who has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.
"We were not aware of these dealings. We are 100 per cent sure that Mr Kedia is not involved,” says HR manager, Xponse Technologies, Sobha Dutta.
Kedia studied in IIT Delhi and a university in California. He is believed to have had a partner in the US.
The Narcotics Control Bureau and its US counterparts are now on the pursuit of Kedia's American partner, whose name is believed to be Steven Mahana.
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