Desk Report: Drug dealers have innovated a new tactics to supply drugs as an anti-narcotics drive is going on across the country, reports Daily Sun.
According to latest information, Yaba pills were smuggled in hidden caskets of cosmetics through Sundarban Courier Service (pvt) Ltd from Chattogram to Dhaka on Monday. A team of Rapid Action Battalion-10 (RAB) recovered 40,000 Yaba pills from the caskets of cosmetics at Motijheel in the capital and nabbed four drug dealers in this connection.
The drug dealers were identified as Arif, Forkan, Rubel and Abu Nayeem. On August 17, a team of RAB-2 arrested two drug vendors from Shaheed Intellectuals’ Graveyard at Mohammadpur and seized 1,900 Yaba pills from a gas cylinder that was brought from Chapainawabganj. On August 16, another team of RAB-2 arrested six drug dealers, including a top drug dealer of Teknaf, from the capital’s Elephant Road and recovered 16.64 lakh Yaba pills from their possession. The gang hired luxurious flats in posh areas for supplying the drugs.
On July 16, the elite force arrested three drug traders—Asad, Shukkur Ali and Shafiqul Islam from Banani area of the capital and recovered 1,800 Yaba pills that they were carrying through their stomachs.
On July 26, RAB nabbed a drug dealer named Jacky with 400 Yaba tablets in his possession from Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur.
The drug was carried through a special chamber set up inside a motorcycle.
On October 26, 2017, a unique method of Ketamine smuggling involving white towels was uncovered following the arrest of three members of an international drug smuggling racket from Pallabi.
The elite force seized 145 bottles of G-Ketamine and 34 white towels each containing 100 grams of the banned drug.
During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed to the elite force that they had been able to purchase G-Ketamine from different pharmacies across the country and had stored it in their apartment before applying an ingenious procedure to smuggle it abroad.
The liquid drug was heated in a steel pan for 30 minutes to make a thick solution which was then sprayed onto one side of a white towel. Once dried, the towel was packaged carefully and sent to Spain through courier service.
Contacted, a senior officer of police headquarters told the daily sun that supply of drugs would continue as long as there is good demand for the banned item.
“If there is great demand of anything, its supply will occur at any cost,” he said.
“So, we should organise mass campaigns from family to state level to stop the demand for drugs,” he suggested.