Cops recover 14 lakh yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar
Police yesterday recovered around 14 lakh yaba tablets and Tk 1.71 crore in cash in separate drives in Cox's Bazar.
Four people were arrested in this connection, said police.
The arrestees are Jahirul Islam Faruk, 37, and Mohammad Babu, 57, Abul Kamal, 55, Sheikh Abdullah, 40 -- all residents of Nuniarchara area near Cox's Bazar Airport.
Faruk and Babu were arrested in the afternoon, while the two others were arrested in the evening.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a fishing boat on a canal in Chowfaldondi area around 1:00pm yesterday, said Mohammad Hasanuzzaman, superintendent of police (SP) of Cox's Bazar.
The police team recovered seven sacks of yaba tablets from the boat. There were around 14 lakh tablets in the seven sacks, said the SP.
A syndicate is involved with this huge consignment of yaba pills, the SP said, adding that it was one of the largest consignments recovered by law enforcement agencies in recent times.
During interrogation, one of the arrestees, Faruk, informed that there was a huge amount of cash at his residence.
Police then took Faruk and raided his residence at Nuniarchara, recovering two sacks filled with a large amount of cash, said Mohammad Ali, officer-in-charge of Detective Branch (DB) of Cox's Bazar police.
SP Hasanuzzaman said the bags contained Tk 1,70,68,500.
Law enforcers had launched an anti-drug crackdown in May 2018. Since then, many drug traders were killed in 'gunfights' with law enforcers and many others were arrested.
Besides, law enforcers have recovered huge amounts of yaba tablets in various drives in Cox's Bazar, which is considered one of the major hubs of the yaba business.
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