Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested of two Sri Lankan nationals, identified as MMM Nawas and Mohamed Afnas from Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and neutralised a multinational crime syndicate that had been smuggling heroin from Pakistan and Iran, Hindustan Times reports on January 22. The two had slipped out of Sri Lanka when drug enforcement officials closed in on them and had been operating out of Chennai. The NCB said the two were key players in the multinational crime syndicate that was behind the 100 kg heroin and 18.325kg of methamphetamine seized from a Sri Lankan vessel “Shenaya Duwa” in the high seas south of Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi on November 26, 2020. Six Sri Lankan nationals who were in the vessel were arrested and five pistols seized from them.