Staff Reporter :
The elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a ‘drug scientist’ on charge of growing and selling new drugs Kush (using heat-controlled methods) from city’s Gulshan area on Monday night.
The detainee is known as Onaisi Saeed alias Reyar Saeed,38.
RAB media Wing Commander Khandakar Al Moin confirmed the matter in a press briefings at RAB media center on Tuesday (August 2) noon.
Claiming the incident to be a first for the country, the RAB official, said while studying abroad, Saeed became familiar with various international drugs. He planned to create a new type of drug circulation and market in the country.
According to the plan, from 2019, he used to bring various types of drugs from different countries through couriers. He used to supply those drugs to various elite parties in the capital.
In the raid, RAB members recovered 101 grams of kush, 6 grams of hemp, 0.05 grams of moly, 1 gram of fentanyl, 18 grams of cocaine, 123 peaches of ecstasy and 28 peaches of Adderall tablets from Saeed Gulshan’s house on Monday night.
Besides, the elite force recovered cash Tk 2.40 crore and various international currency including 5 million US dollars from his house.
A diary was also recovered from him. Where his research on drugs is written in detail, what drugs should be stored at what temperature, and how to consume in what amount are written in that diary.
Commander Khandaker Al Moin said that Onaisi accused Saeed had been living in Bangladesh since 2014. But he used to visit abroad trips regularly. But he didn’t take drugs.
He said Saeed used to bring the parcels in the name of close relatives and friends. Of course, none of them knew about it. Saeed used to pay the price of these drugs through hundi. His customers in Bangladesh are members of various elite families.
As a trial, he started farming in a flat in Mohammadpur of the capital with a heat control grow-tent system. For the first time, he produced about 400 grams of Kush from this plant. He then sold those drugs for Tk 3 lakh per gram.
A case will be filed against Saeed under the Special Powers Act and Money Laundering, Al Moin said.
