Cops visit Mamta Kulkarni's locked flats, get details of society charges

THANE: The Thane police visited the three Andheri flats believed to be owned by former Bollywood actor Mamta Kulkarni on Monday evening to pursue leads in the Rs 2,000-crore drug haul case. They found the flats to be locked, but didn't quite return empty-handed. Kulkarni is the wife of fugitive drug baron Vicky Goswami, who lives in Kenya and is the prime accused in the case.
Kulkarni's flats are on the first, second and seventh floors of RC Complex in Versova, Andheri.Sources said the police have found that a person named Sanjay Sharma deposits maintenance charges of Rs 13,000 in the housing society's bank account once in three months. For the plainclothes police team, the visit was not without event. For one, they did not have a formal notice or a search warrant. Secondly , society members confronted the squad, mistaking its members for journalists. It was only after the cops identified themselves and told the society that they were there for a routine inquiry that the society members started cooperating. A source said the police are looking into the ownership de tails of the flats and other aspects related to Kulkarni.The actor married Goswami in 2013. They were detained by Kenyan authorities in 2014 on the charge of drug trafficking.
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“The Kenyan drug cartel that Goswami belongs to is operated by Baktash Akasha Abdallah and his brother Ibrahim.Goswami is their India part ner,“ said a police officer. Goswami is the son of a former police officer from Gujarat and started as a drug peddler in Ahmedabad in the late 1980s. “The trail in the Rs 2,000-crore case led the police to the Solapur unit of Avon Lifesciences Ltd, which was used for refining ephedrine into heroin and other ecstasy drugs,“ said a police officer.