Telugu
actor
P
Navdeep
appeared
before
the
Enforcement
Directorate
(ED)
here
on
Monday
as
part
of
a
money-laundering
probe
in
connection
with
a
high-end
drugs
racket
that
was
busted
in
the
city
in
2017.
Navdeep,
is
among
the
10
personalities
from
Tollywood,
the
Telugu
film
industry,
whom
the
ED
has
summoned
to
appear
before
it
in
connection
with
the
sensational
racket
of
supplying
high-end
narcotics
such
as
LSD
and
MDMA,
that
was
busted
by
the
Telangana's
Prohibition
and
Excise
department.
Since
August
31
this
year,
noted
filmmaker
Puri
Jagannadh,
actresses
Charmee
Kaur
and
Rakul
Preet
Singh,
actors
Nandu,
Rana
Daggubati
and
Ravi
Teja
have
so
far
appeared
before
the
central
agency.
The
drug
racket
was
exposed
in
July
2017
and
several
cases
related
to
drug
trafficking
were
registered
and
over
20
people
were
arrested
including
a
US
citizen,
who
was
a
former
aerospace
engineer
and
had
worked
with
NASA,
a
Dutch
national,
a
South
African
national
besides
seven
B.Tech
degree
holders
employed
with
multi-national
companies
here.
The
names
of
some
Tollywood
personalities
came
out
during
the
interrogation
of
persons
arrested
in
connection
with
the
racket.
A
Special
Investigation
Team
(SIT)
of
Telangana's
Prohibition
and
Excise
department,
as
part
of
its
investigation,
had
also
probed
the
alleged
drug-links
with
Tollywood,
and
had
then
questioned
11
people
connected
to
the
Telugu
film
industry
including
actors
and
directors
besides
the
driver
of
one
of
the
actor
and
had
also
collected
hair
and
nail
samples.
The
SIT
questioned
them
to
find
out
if
they
had
any
links
with
the
racket
as
consumers
or
suppliers
or
with
those
arrested.
The
ED
summoned
the
Tollywood
personalities
who
were
among
those
questioned
by
SIT
and
they
were
asked
to
appear
before
it.
The
racket
supplied
high-end
drugs
such
as
lysergic
acid
diethylamide
(LSD)
and
methylenedioxy-methamphetamine
(MDMA),
and
it
is
suspected
that
people
from
the
film
industry,
employees
of
MNCs
and
college
students
were
among
their
customers.
Orders
were
placed
through
the
'Darknet'
(secretive
websites
or
online
networks)
and
the
drugs
were
delivered
by
courier
including
from
overseas,
the
investigators
had
said.