Illegally imported drug seized in city

A shipment of illegally imported medicines worth around Tk 50 lakh was seized from a cargo service office in the capital last night.

On information, a mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Towheed Elahi raided the office of A-to-Z Cargo Service at Fakirapool around 8:00pm and found 40 cartons of the medicines there.

The medicines, mostly produced in the UK, were imported dodging taxes, said Assistant Superintendent Ehsanur Rahman Bhuiyan of the Armed Police Battalion which along with the Directorate General of Drug Administration assisted the mobile court.

The medicines were couriered to Dhaka from Chittagong and meant to be distributed among different drugstores in the capital, the police official added.

The manager of the cargo service office was jailed for two months and fined Tk 2 lakh.