Extortion racket of NSCN busted

Close aide of Muivah arrested

In what may be called a major breakthrough the Assam Rifles (AR) along with the Nagaland Police busted a major extortion racket operated by the NSCN-IM in Dimapur and arrested the treasurer in self-styled Prime Minister’s Office of National Social Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) Rayilung Nsarngbe and his two associates.

The security forces also recovered a cash amount of about `1.59 crore and two kilogram of RDX with a large number of arms and ammunitions from the residence of top NSCN (IM) leader who happens to be the close associate of NSCN (IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah.

In what has also corroborated the hard-hitting letter of Nagaland governor R.N. Ravi, the investigation has revealed that cash recovered from the NSCN (IM) cadre was extorted from an Agra based road construction company which is working in Nagaland and Manipur.

Security forces, which had specific tip off, first caught Mr Zingshongam Muinao with `11 lakh cash. “On the spot questioning of Mr Zingshongam Muinao, it was revealed that `11 lakh recovered from him was collected from Mr Rabi on the direction of Mr Rayilung. It was also disclosed by him that an additional amount of `15 lakh was to be collected from an individual namely Mr Vimal Kumar Jain and total amount `26 lakh then was to be delivered at the residence of Mr Rayilung,” the Nagaland police FIR (No, 07/2020) said while referring that police in followed up operation detained Mr Vimal Kumar Jain with `15 lakh.

Police in its FIR further claimed that while operation was going on Mr Muinao got a call from Mr Rayilung to deliver the cash collected from defined locations to his residence.