A court in the port city here on Monday remanded in police custody for the second round the owner of a company accused of importing edible oil mixed with cocaine in the country’s biggest drug haul as investigations into the bust is underway.
Police and lawyers said the court granted police two days to interrogate chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Limited Nur Mohammad in their custody for the second time since his arrest on January 15 suspecting his links to the cocaine import.
“The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Jholok Roy granted the two-day remand against our prayer for three days . . . last time we quizzed him in our custody for three days soon after his arrest obtaining the order from another metropolitan magistrate,” a police officer familiar with the investigation process told BSS.
Customs intelligence seized a shipment of cocaine mixed in sunflower oil weighing some 200 kilograms which officials said could be worth Taka 50,000 million as a consignment reached the Chittagong Port on June 8 last year.
“We believe the volume of cocaine we seized (in June last year) could be worth Taka 50,000 million,” Director General of Customs Intelligence Moinul Khan earlier told BSS.
He, however, said that the chemical testing process of the cocaine mixed with the edible oil is now underway “and on completion of the tests, I could tell you the exact amount.”
Khan added: “In that case the cocaine haul will be the country’s biggest ever anti-drug bust.”
Police earlier arrested four suspects belonging to the importing company and the shipping line.
