{"id":943364,"date":"2025-07-03T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943364"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:58:04","slug":"darknet-drug-racket-traded-in-hard-to-track-crypto-says-kerala-ncb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/darknet-drug-racket-traded-in-hard-to-track-crypto-says-kerala-ncb\/","title":{"rendered":"Darknet drug racket traded in hard-to-track crypto, says Kerala NCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The Muvattupuzha native who ran the darknet-based drug racket Ketamelon used Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that is now popular for illegal activities, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has found. <\/p>\n<p>The central agency\u2019s investigation into the operations of 35-year-old Edison, an engineer by profession, revealed that he managed the drug network single-handedly and shipped over 600 consignments of LSD blots and ketamine clandestinely across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The Muvattupuzha native who ran the darknet-based drug racket Ketamelon used Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that is now popular for illegal activities, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has found. The central agency\u2019s investigation into the operations of 35-year-old Edison, an engineer by profession, revealed that he managed the drug network single-handedly and shipped over 600 consignments of LSD blots and ketamine clandestinely across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}