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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