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Viewing cable 06CALCUTTA536, INDIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE USD 70 MILLION AMPHETAMINE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06CALCUTTA536 2006-11-28 08:05 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Kolkata
VZCZCXRO9861
PP RUEHBI RUEHCHI RUEHCI RUEHCN
DE RUEHCI #0536/01 3320805
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 280805Z NOV 06
FM AMCONSUL CALCUTTA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1286
INFO RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 1155
RUEHCG/AMCONSUL CHENNAI 0456
RUEHBI/AMCONSUL MUMBAI 0458
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA 0287
RUEHGO/AMEMBASSY RANGOON 0189
RUEHKT/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU 0287
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 0220
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0081
RUEHGZ/AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU 0003
RUEHCN/AMCONSUL CHENGDU 0038
RUEHBK/AMEMBASSY BANGKOK 0127
RUEHCHI/AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI 0009
RHMFIUU/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RHMFIUU/JIATF WEST
RUEABND/DEA HQS WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION WASHINGTON DC
RUEIDN/DNI WASHINGTON DC
RUEFHLC/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC
RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 0001
RUEHCI/AMCONSUL CALCUTTA 1581
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 CALCUTTA 000536 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
PACOM FOR POL/AD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SNAR KCRM SOCI ASEC IN CH CO
SUBJECT: INDIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE USD 70 MILLION AMPHETAMINE 
PRECURSOR CHEMICALS IN CALCUTTA 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:  On November 14 officials of the Indian 
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized an estimated USD 70 
million in methampetamine precursor chemicals in a cargo 
shipping container at a warehouse in Calcutta.  NCB officials 
arrested Indian national of Chinese  origin Vincent Chang alias 
Chang Xug Song (age 23) and Michel Suanpu (age 36) a 
Manipur-based businessman from Mizoram, Northeast Indian states 
bordering Burma. The container originated in Columbia, transited 
Hong Kong and Huang Pu ports, China, and was to be sent to 
Gurgaon, a rapidly developing IT center near New Delhi.  The 
shipping container appears to have been a self-contained, mobile 
factory with the necessary equipment to convert the chemicals to 
methamphetamine.  Locating the shipping container in Gurgaon 
would have provided a large market of young, IT professionals 
with greater independence and disposable income and therefore 
likely to experiment with methamphetamine.   This recent arrest 
and similar arrest in 2003 in Calcutta reflect the effort by 
drug dealers to expand markets from the traditional but remote 
Northeast Indian states bordering Burma, where drug usage is 
endemic, to urban population in centers in India proper.  This 
new tactic use of a shipping container as a "mobile factory" 
will make detection of such efforts more difficult.   End 
Summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) On November 14, 50 NCB officers seized a shipping 
container in the Balmer Lawrie warehouse at 21 Netaji Subhas 
Road, Taratala, Calcutta, with methamphetamine precursor 
chemicals approximately USD 70 million in value.  According to 
NCB contacts, the container was registered to a Chinese company 
Yong Yong and declared to contain machine tools.  The container 
was loaded in Columbia, transited Hong Kong and Huangpu Port, 
Guangdong province, China, prior to arriving in Calcutta in 
October.  The container was due to be shipped to Gurgaon, a 
rapidly developing IT center near New Delhi.  Gurgaon has a 
large and growing middle class community of IT and service 
professionals, representing an ideal market for methamphetamine. 
 This container was actually a second such shipment.  A similar 
container had earlier transited Calcutta in July and was seized 
by the NCB in Gurgaon in October and apparently led to the 
latest seizure in Calcutta. 
 
3.  (U) Authorities have released the name of two arrested 
suspects, an Indian-national of Chinese origin Vincent Chang 
alias Chang Xug Song (age 23) and Michel Suanpu (age 36) from 
Mizoram but based in Manipur, Northeast Indian states bordering 
Burma.  Media reports indicate a total of six people were 
arrested in connection with the shipment. 
 
4.  (SBU) Earlier in July, local British Broadcasting 
Corporation (BBC) correspondent Subir Bhaumik noted to ConGen 
that Northeast India-based drug dealers were seeking to shift 
production of methamphetamine to markets in India's major urban 
centers because obtaining precursor chemicals in the Northeast 
was complicated as was shipping the finished product to the 
profitable markets in India proper.  Bhaumik cited the May 2003 
arrest of Burmese Baikha Kema, who was arrested in Calcutta 
attempting to establish a methamphetamine lab in this city as an 
example.  Kema was never prosecuted, having escaped from jail 
while awaiting trial.  This latest arrest appears to reinforce 
Bhaumik's observation as authorities told press that the seized 
container was to have been sent to Mizoram but the dealers 
decided to shift instead to Gurgaon. 
 
5.  (SBU) Comment.  The arrest of Manipur-based and ethnic Mizo 
Michel Suanpu in this recent effort to establish a 
methamphetamine lab in Gurgaon, presents the disturbing prospect 
of the endemic drug problem of Northeast India bleeding into 
India's growing IT and service centers.  India's burgeoning 
 
CALCUTTA 00000536  002 OF 002 
 
 
young, middle class IT professionals, business processing and 
call center workers with ready disposable income represents an 
attractive potential new market for methamphetamine.  These 
service workers often work long hours, usually doing late night 
shifts to service customers in the U.S. and Europe.   Typically 
on their own for the first time, these young professionals have 
ready disposable income and a desire to experiment with their 
new social independence.  Methamphetamine, therefore, is a 
prefect drug for the sleepless IT workers looking to enjoy their 
new found money and lifestyle. 
JARDINE