Chittagong Bureau :
RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) personnel have seized a consignment of 500,000 Yaba tablets and detained seven persons from a fishing trawler at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port.
RAB-7 Chief Lt Colonel Mifta Uddin said that the fishing trawler, ‘MT Hena’, was stopped on Wednesday night and the arrested persons were detained as Md Hannan, 40, Md Lokman, 33, Md Russell, 30, Md Ilias, 18, Md Waliullah, 21, Md Riaj, 19, and Md Osman, 20.
It Colonel Mifta Uddin said that they raided the trawler learning of ‘a huge quantity’ of Yaba in it.
“After searching the trawler, we found 500,000 Yaba tablets, all carefully concealed in water barrels.”
The contraband was smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar, said the RAB official. “Close to St. Martin, there is an area named Sitar Matha where from these Yaba tablets are loaded on to the trawlers. The consignment was to be passed on to another trawler in Chittagong.” Mifta said the detained are being interrogated to find out others in the gang , especially the ring leader. The huge haul on Wednesday night is claimed as the largest seizure of Yaba tablets by RAB in recent times. Earlier in 2012, a joint team of RAB-1 and RAB-7 had seized 275,000 Yaba tablets from Khatunganj area.
On Feb 4, the navy seized a consignment of 1.5 million Yaba tablets, the largest haul so far, from a trawler named ‘FB Rajib’ at No. 1 buoy area in the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port, Meanwhile Mizzima reports that Myanmar Border Police had seized 570,000 Yaba methamphetamine tablets in Maungdaw Township in northern Rakhine State on May 5.
RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) personnel have seized a consignment of 500,000 Yaba tablets and detained seven persons from a fishing trawler at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port.
RAB-7 Chief Lt Colonel Mifta Uddin said that the fishing trawler, ‘MT Hena’, was stopped on Wednesday night and the arrested persons were detained as Md Hannan, 40, Md Lokman, 33, Md Russell, 30, Md Ilias, 18, Md Waliullah, 21, Md Riaj, 19, and Md Osman, 20.
It Colonel Mifta Uddin said that they raided the trawler learning of ‘a huge quantity’ of Yaba in it.
“After searching the trawler, we found 500,000 Yaba tablets, all carefully concealed in water barrels.”
The contraband was smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar, said the RAB official. “Close to St. Martin, there is an area named Sitar Matha where from these Yaba tablets are loaded on to the trawlers. The consignment was to be passed on to another trawler in Chittagong.” Mifta said the detained are being interrogated to find out others in the gang , especially the ring leader. The huge haul on Wednesday night is claimed as the largest seizure of Yaba tablets by RAB in recent times. Earlier in 2012, a joint team of RAB-1 and RAB-7 had seized 275,000 Yaba tablets from Khatunganj area.
On Feb 4, the navy seized a consignment of 1.5 million Yaba tablets, the largest haul so far, from a trawler named ‘FB Rajib’ at No. 1 buoy area in the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port, Meanwhile Mizzima reports that Myanmar Border Police had seized 570,000 Yaba methamphetamine tablets in Maungdaw Township in northern Rakhine State on May 5.
