Hry pharma co directorheld for ‘diverting’ key methamphetamine mix

The director of a pharmaceutical company in Haryana has been arrested by Gujarat’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for allegedly diverting a large quantity of pseudoephedrine, a key chemical used to make the banned drug methamphetamine. The NCB claims that nearly 475.2 kg of pseudoephedrine, worth Rs 2,000 crore, was diverted. The director, Sumit Kumar, denies the allegations and says he has been wrongly implicated. The NCB had found that pseudoephedrine was missing from batches of medicine that were supposed to be exported to Sudan.