CHITTAGONG NEWS
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized 270,000 yaba tablets and arrested a yaba smuggler along with his three accomplices at Asadganj in Chittagong on Friday morning.
The arrestees are Abdur Rashid Kulu, 50, Sabbir Ahmed, 30, of Teknaf upzaila, and Ataul Karim, 28, and Mohammad Ismail, 27, of Shahpari Dwip (Island) in Cox’s Bazar district.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint-team of Rab-1 and Rab-7 conducted a drive at a warehouse in the area under Kotwali Police Station around 4:00am and arrested the four people, reports our correspondent in Chittagong.
The Rab personnel seized 2,70,000 pieces of Yaba, kept in 14 sacks, those were mixed with sacks of plum from a truck, said Commander M Sohail, director of Rab Legal and Media Wing.
Sohail said, “There are special marks in the sacks those are carrying yaba.”
The estimated price of the yaba to be around Tk 10 crore, he said.
Terming it as the biggest ever yaba haul in the country, the media wing director said, “The tablets came to the country from Myanmar on Thursday night.”
Major Ziaul Ahsan, acting commanding officer of Rab-7 said, “We seized the sacks of yaba when the sacks were being unloaded from the truck.”
Ahsan told reporters in front of the warehouse that Ataul Karim rented the warehouse from one Abdul Malek Chowdhury three moths ago.
Malek Chowdhury said, “Ataul rented the warehouse from me for three years. He also gave me Tk 2.40 lakh in advance for one year and said they will store imported items like jams and jelly.”
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