Sohel on 5-day remand in cocaine scandal

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Chittagong Bureau :
A Chittagong court on Tuesday granted five-day remand to Golam Mostafa Sohel , Manager of Khanjahan Ali Enterprise of Khatunganj for his alleged involvement in brining cocaine with imported sunflower oil through Chittagong Port.
The court of senior Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Farid Alam, granted the five-day remand as prayed for by police.
Earlier, the same court ordered to show him arrest after police prayer.
However, an investigating team has been formed regarding the import of liquid cocaine in the name of sunflower oil.
The Custom Intelligent sealed 107 drums of sunflower oil at the NCT yard of the Chittagong port on June 7 based on an intelligence report.
The primary test found no trace of cocaine in the 107 drums in the container.
But existence of liquid cocaine was found in barrels of edible oil, seized from a container at Chittagong Port, after their contents were retested in the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) and Bangladesh Drug Testing Laboratory (BDTL).
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