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In a major raid, police have busted a drug laboratory in Anjuna and confiscated raw materials to produce drugs believed to be worth more than Rs 1 crore.
An Austrian has been arrested in this connection and he has been remanded to five days police custody.
The drug laboratory was operating from a house at Mazil-vaddo, near Tembi ground in Anjuna.
Anjuna Police chanced upon the laboratory, after they detained the accused, Christian Koller (35) of Austria on Wednesday afternoon and on a search, found charas and MDMA worth Rs 3.10 lakh on his person.
During the interrogation, the accused disclosed that he was arrested by the Austrian police in a drug related case in 2008.
Later in the evening, a team of police led by SDPO Serafin Dias and PI C L Patil and Anjuna Police went to the house, from where the accused conducted operations.
“The accused had started a lab in order to produce amphetamine drug powder and GBL liquid. We found 21 bottles of different type of chemicals, one bottle of poison and raw amphetamine of around half a kilo as well as various equipment used to manufacture drugs,” PI Patil said.
Two electrical induction cookers, a fridge, jars and other equipment, which were found in the lab, have been seized by police.
Police informed that the accused was staying in the house from October 26 and he would not allow anyone enter
