Nagoa-based Tarzan Parsekar’s drug peddlers couriering narcotics to Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai

PANAJI: The Hyderabad anti-narcotics unit as well as the Chennai cops are tracking the whereabouts of several drug peddlers owing allegiance to the Nagoa, North Goa-based criminal Tarzan Parsekar who has funded more than 25 drug peddlers based out of Goa, used to courier drugs to other states including Karnataka, Telangana and Maharashtra.

Tarzan and his gang were recently arrested by the police after they knifed a youth from Candolim. They are presently in judicial custody in the case.

Parsekar’s “boys” are active in Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune, but of late have gone underground after the crackdown in Goa by the Hyderabad narco cops.

Now, even the Chennai police are after 3 known drug peddlers from the North Goa coastal belt, whose customers were nabbed by them over the last four months.

Tarzan Parsekar always hid in the background and did not meet peddlers himself, but controlled his drug network through two henchmen. He did not deal with the peddlers himself. He used to issue orders through his two “managers” who ran the network for him.

Though Parsekar has several cases of attempt to murder, rioting, carrying arms, etc., registered against him by the Goa police, he managed to stay away from drug-related NDPS cases as he never came on the radar of the cops.

He provided funds to the duo who procured drugs in bulk for retail sale. The peddlers who purchased drugs from his two “managers” to deliver it to consumers who would place orders via the darknet and even on secret Telegram groups, would return double or triple the funds provided, depending on the time period.