Two smuggling fentanyl inputs got it from firm indicted in US: ATS

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) claims to have found a link between two persons arrested this month for allegedly smuggling "fentanyl precursors" to Mexico and Guatemala and a Hyderabad-based pharma company, whose top executives have been indicted in the United States for unlawfully importing the precursors, The Indian Express has learnt. On March 17, the Gujarat ATS arrested Satishkumar Haresh Sutaria and Yukta Ashishkumar Modi, partners in three Surat-based pharma companies, for allegedly exporting fentanyl precursors — basic chemicals that form fentanyl, an opioid analgesic used in anaesthesia — illegally to Mexico and Guatemala through air cargo from Maharashtra. Officials…