Came from Pakistan, couriered to UK

Detectives yesterday arrested a member of a transnational drug smugglers' gang, who had sent 50 small consignments of heroin coming from Pakistan to the UK through local branches of international courier services.
Following his arrest at Mohammadpur in the capital, Shamsul Arefin Tuhin confessted to this at a press briefing at the DB office.
He had hidden the drugs in shoes, jackets and books and sent those to the UK, using the courier services, he said.
Police learnt about the drug smuggling and the gang after one Jitu had been arrested with some heroin he had bought from a driver of the Savar branch of Aramex Courier Service.
Driver Mohsin Sardar and three other staff of the courier service discovered 500 grams of heroin inside the souls of a pair of shoes on July 17 while checking parcels, police said. Instead of informing police about the matter, they sold half of the consignment.
The three staff of the branch are Sadekul Alam Sumon, Sohag and Shreebash Poddar.
On Sunday, they and the driver were arrested in a police raid at the Aramex Courier Service branch.
During an interrogation, they said Tuhin had dropped the parcel containing the shoes and a lungi to be sent to Birmingham of the UK. Later, they found the drugs in them.
The arrestees also told the police that they had sold half of the heroin and handed over the rest to Tuhin.
The heroin was supposed to be sent to Tuhin's cousin Shah Alam Sumon, Mashiur Rahman, DB additional deputy commissioner, quoted Tuhin, from Sylhet, as saying in an interrogation.
Sumon runs a drug business in the UK jointly with a Pakistani national. Tuhin and four others, including Liton of Sunamganj, Ali of Feni and Zakir of Noakhali, acted as their agents and sent heroin to the UK almost every month.
The drugs had come from Pakistan in parcels, Mashiur said.
About the drugs seized, he said two Pakistanis had come to Bangladesh a few months ago and handed those over to Tuhin at Uttara in Dhaka.
Sumon, from Noakhali, has been residing in the UK for the last 15 years.
Contacted, Aramex's operational manager Sazzadul Islam Fahmi said their staffs had been deliberately involved in the crime.
"They found the heroin in the package but did not inform the management. We came to know this from police," he said.