What is 'black cocaine' which has been caught for the first time in the country?

The Narcotics Control Bureau has seized 3.20 kg of 'black cocaine' which is estimated to be valued at Rs 13 crores from a foreign national who was flying in from Brazil at the Mumbai airport. 'Black cocaine' is a mixture of regular cocaine and other chemicals. It's not visible during scanning at airports.
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New Delhi: The Narcotics Control Bureau has seized 3.20 kg of 'black cocaine' which is estimated to be valued at Rs 13 crores from a foreign national who was flying in from Brazil at the Mumbai airport. 'Black cocaine' is a mixture of regular cocaine and other chemicals. It's not visible during scanning at airports, and sniffer dogs can't detect it either, said officials. This is the first time that this type of cocaine has been recovered in the country.
In a major three-day major operation the NCB has also nabbed the carrier and receiver from different cities. NCB seized the narcotic substance from a Bolivian lady at Mumbai Airport and a Nigerian national has also been apprehended from Goa in connection with the same case.
The crackdown began when the NCB received a piece of reliable information regarding a South American national, who would be flying into Mumbai with a shipment of drugs which would then be distributed throughout Mumbai and the surrounding states, according to a press release.
Sleuths from the Mumbai NCB reached the spot and 'set up a discreet surveillance perimeter to physically identify the Bolivian lady.'
The press release by NCB read, "On 26/09/2022, shortly, after the flight landed, the said lady was identified who was moving around to board the connecting flight to Goa. Thereafter, she was questioned in routine manner about her purpose of visit and contents in her luggage to which she could not give satisfactory reply. Consequently, a thorough search of her luggage led to discovery of false cavities wherein 12 packets tightly packed were recovered. Upon checking the packets, black coloured substance was found."
After being questioned, the woman admitted that the substance in her possession was the black cocaine. She admitted that she was required to give the drug consignment to a foreign recipient in Goa, NCB said.
The NCB then followed up on the information and located and captured the recipient in Goa through a trap which they set up in a Goa hotel, resulting in the arrest of a Nigerian national.
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