Yaba pills worth Tk 2.7cr seized, five held

Border Guard Bangladesh has arrested five suspected drug peddlers in Cox’s Bazar and seized 90,000 pieces of yaba tablets worth over Tk 2.7 crore.

The arrestees are: Shamsul Alam, 25, Akhter Hossain, 35, Md Hossain, 28, Jamir Hossain, 50, and Md Kefayetullah, 30.

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Acting on a tip off that a trawler carrying a large consignment of counterfeit goods might arrive at Mistri Ghat from Myanmar on Monday, a team of BGB-2 battalion in Teknaf raided an anchored vessel, Colonel Mohammad Faisal Hasan Khan, chief of the battalion, told reporters.

After conducting a thorough search, the BGB team seized the yaba tablets stashed inside the oil tank and took the five “drug peddlers” on board the vessel into custody.

In another incident, a patrol team of the BGB-2 battalion seized some 14,000 pieces of yaba tablets near the Damdamia check post in Teknaf.

Sources said that BGB personnel signalled a biker to pull over at the check post, but he abandoned the vehicle and disappeared in the mountains. A search resulted in the drug haul.

Yaba pills worth Tk 2.7cr seized, five held
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