yaba traders

A farcical police campaign against drugs

Once-jailed Yaba kingpins are making a comeback

ACC files cases against ‘top yaba traders’ over illegal wealth

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has prosecuted two “top yaba traders” in Cox’s Bazar for “amassing wealth illegally.”

2 held with 22,330 pieces of yaba pills in Dhaka

Rab claim to have arrested two yaba traders from Dhaka’s Mohakhali area while smuggling 22,330 pieces of the contraband pills in a private car from Cox’s Bazar.

Rab arrests 2 Yaba traders in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested two drug traders red handed from Dhaka’s Uttara while smuggling one lakh pieces of yaba into Dhaka from Cox’s Bazar.

Five lakh yaba pills seized in Patuakhali

Bangladesh Coast Guard has seized 500,000 yaba pills and held two men from the mouth of the river Ramnabad on the Bay of Bengal in Patuakhali.

Yaba Trade in Teknaf: Surrender has little impact

The surrender of 102 drug lords on February 16 now seems merely an eyewash as the yaba empire in Teknaf remains mostly intact with some of their family members and paid agents taking care of the illegal trade.

Yaba dealers using kids as mules

Yaba traders are adopting new techniques every day to bring the pills to the capital. They are now using mostly homeless children, aged between 10 and 15 years, as drug mules. They pay the children to take the risks.

5 ‘drug traders’ held in Kadamtoli

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims arrest of five drug traders from Dhaka’s Kadamtoli area.

October 2, 2022
October 2, 2022

A farcical police campaign against drugs

Once-jailed Yaba kingpins are making a comeback

March 11, 2020
March 11, 2020

ACC files cases against ‘top yaba traders’ over illegal wealth

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has prosecuted two “top yaba traders” in Cox’s Bazar for “amassing wealth illegally.”

December 21, 2019
December 21, 2019

2 held with 22,330 pieces of yaba pills in Dhaka

Rab claim to have arrested two yaba traders from Dhaka’s Mohakhali area while smuggling 22,330 pieces of the contraband pills in a private car from Cox’s Bazar.

May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019

Rab arrests 2 Yaba traders in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested two drug traders red handed from Dhaka’s Uttara while smuggling one lakh pieces of yaba into Dhaka from Cox’s Bazar.

April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019

Five lakh yaba pills seized in Patuakhali

Bangladesh Coast Guard has seized 500,000 yaba pills and held two men from the mouth of the river Ramnabad on the Bay of Bengal in Patuakhali.

April 9, 2019
April 9, 2019

Yaba Trade in Teknaf: Surrender has little impact

The surrender of 102 drug lords on February 16 now seems merely an eyewash as the yaba empire in Teknaf remains mostly intact with some of their family members and paid agents taking care of the illegal trade.

February 4, 2019
February 4, 2019

Yaba dealers using kids as mules

Yaba traders are adopting new techniques every day to bring the pills to the capital. They are now using mostly homeless children, aged between 10 and 15 years, as drug mules. They pay the children to take the risks.

January 19, 2019
January 19, 2019

5 ‘drug traders’ held in Kadamtoli

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims arrest of five drug traders from Dhaka’s Kadamtoli area.

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