Police form team to quiz the arrestees

A 10-member police team has been formed to interrogate those arrested for their alleged links with the cocaine consignment seized in Chittagong port on June 6.

Kusum Dewan, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police, would supervise the team, lead by SM Tanvir Arafat, additional deputy commissioner of CMP DB, said sources.

On Friday, CMP Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mondol formed the team comprising five assistant commissioners, two officers-in-charge of two police stations and two DB inspectors.

The team yesterday held a meeting with Kusum Dewan and CMP Additional Commissioner Debdas Bhattacharjee.

Four persons -- Atiqur Rahman, Mostafa Kamal, AK Azad and Golam Mostafa Sohel -- have been detained in connection with the seizure of a barrel of cocaine.

The liquid cocaine was hidden in the barrel that arrived at Chittagong port on May 8 along with 106 more barrels in a container from Bolivia via Uruguay. The other barrels contained sunflower oil.

According to the cargo manifest recorded at the National Board of Revenue, a Bolivian company -- Import Export Vaiven SRL -- shipped the consignment from Montevideo Port in Uruguay.