Posted on 11/22/2021 2:32:26 PM PST by algore
Indian police said on Saturday they had charged senior executives of Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) local unit under narcotics laws in a case of alleged marijuana smuggling via the online retailer.
Police in the central Madhya Pradesh state arrested two men with 20 kg of marijuana on Nov. 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.
State police said in a statement that executive directors of Amazon India were being named as accused under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act due to differences in answers in documents provided by the company in response to police questions and facts unearthed by discussion.
Police did not disclose how many executives were charged.
The police, who had previously summoned and spoken to Amazon executives in the case, estimate that about 1,000 kg of marijuana, worth roughly $148,000, was sold via Amazon.
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bought a farm and started raising pretty poppy flowers and sold them through ads in the back of magazines and little nickel papers.
The were found not guilty of drug trafficking because they did not know that the pretty flowers could be made into opium
I heard you can order anything on the internet 🤪
It’s just a weed...
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