IANS

Panaji, Mar 16: The Goa Police are moving Interpol to question the Swedish girlfriend of Israeli drug peddler Atala arrested here last week.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Salgaonkar told IANS that the sting operation in which Atala was filmed naming police officers allegedly involved in drug trade was shot by his girlfriend.

"We are contacting Interpol to record his girlfriend's statement. She is presently in Sweden," Salgaonkar said, refusing to name the woman.

He said Atala had said that his girlfriend shot the video in 2008.

Atala was arrested for allegedly bribing anti-narcotics cell police inspector Ashish Shirodkar after his spy camera video uploaded by an anonymous user on www.youtube.com rocked the police establishment.

In the video Atala is shown travelling in a car packed with drugs like charas and cocaine and speaking to an unidentified person about his clout with the Goa Police.

Atala alleged in the video that Shirodkar stole drugs from court's custody and sold it to him. He said he paid the officer Rs.100,000 to allow a suspect arrested in a drug raid to go scot-free.