Rapid
Action Battalion (RAB)-7 recovered 500,000 Yaba tablets worth about TK 20 crore
and detained seven drug traders from a fishing trawler ‘MV Hena’ at the outer
anchorage of the port early Thursday.
RAB
claimed this is the largest seizure of Yaba tablets in recent time.
The
arrested drug traders were identified as Mohammad Hannan, 40, Mohammad Osman,
23, Mohammad Rasel, 33, Mohammad Waliullah, 21, Mohammad Ilias, 18, Mohammad
Reaj, 19, and Mohammad Lockman, 33.
RAB-7
commander Lt Col Mifta Uddin in a press briefing said that based on information
a team of RAB halted the fishing trawler, ‘MV Hena’, at 12.30 am on Thursday.
“After
searching the trawler we found 500,000 contraband Yaba tablets, concealed in
water barrels which were smuggled from Myanmar,” he added.
Mifta
said Yaba tablets are loaded on to the trawlers near Sitar Matha of St. Martins
Island and the consignment was to be passed on to another trawler in
Chittagong.
But
the RAB team caught them before transferring Yaba tablets, he added.
Mifta
said the detained are being interrogated to find out others of the gang ,
especially the ring leader.
The
approximate value of the tablets is TK 20 crore, he added. (Source: BSS)