Austrian held in Goa with self-made drugs worth Rs 1 crore

MAPUSA: In some of the largest drug haul in the state, a 35-year-old Austrian national Christian Koller was once arrested for manufacturing narcotic substances worth Rs 1 crore in a laboratory he set up at his rented premises in Anjuna. Various medicine worth Rs three lakh had been additionally present in his ownership.
Christian Koller’s Anjuna place of dwelling was once searched.

Koller, who landed in India on October 2, was once booked in a drug case in his nation in 2008.

Police apprehended Koller close to Starco junction in Anjuna on Wednesday between 11.45am and a couple of.55pm, at the suspicion that he was once wearing narcotics.

“We have registered the offence under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. The accused was once produced earlier than the courtroom at Mapusa and has been granted five-day police custody,” Anjuna police inspector Chetan Patil informed TOI.

Drugs produced at Anjuna area

The narcotics discovered with him integrated Rs 2.5 lakh worth of a drug referred to as GBL liquid, measuring about 5g, which was once manufactured through Koller himself. GBL is sometimes called liquid ecstasy, which is used as a drug by itself or as a uncooked subject material for manufacturing of amphetamine.

Koller was once additionally discovered with another 5.5g of a whitish powder, mentioned to had been manufactured through him, besides 19.1g of suspected charas worth Rs 20,000 and 1.2g of suspected MDMA worth Rs 10,000.

Police sources mentioned Koller’s place of dwelling was once additionally searched. He lately is living in rented premises at Anjuna with one Frank Oniel.

Police mentioned Koller had set up a laboratory at his place of dwelling to provide amphetamine and GBL and found 21 bottles of different types of chemical compounds, one bottle of poison, and part a kilogram of uncooked amphetamine, altogether worth approximately Rs 1 crore, in the laboratory.


All chemical compounds and drugs, besides two electric induction ovens, a refrigerator and jars among other items discovered in the laboratory had been seized and attached, police mentioned.


As Koller has been arrested for a grave crime, an “express file” is being submitted to Foreigner Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Panaji, soliciting for that the embassy concerned be informed of the arrest, police sub inspector Vishwajeet Chodankar mentioned.


Anjuna police crew comprised Chodankar and constables Vishal Naik, Suhas Joshi, Tirtharaj Mhamal and Pravin Patil.


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