drug smuggling

Jails are becoming drug dens

Holistic approach needed to stop drug trade in Bangladeshi prisons

Are drug kingpins being protected?

Failure to 'identify' or take legal action against them is unacceptable

Tk 2,000cr laundering: Fresh CID probe finds 30 involved

The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of at least 30 people in laundering Tk 2,000 crore while investigating a case filed against two Faridpur brothers Sajjad Hossain Barkat and Imtiaz Hasan Rubel. 

Swallowing yaba for a living

It takes around 4 hours to swallow 54 small packets of yaba for 41-year-old Josna Khatun. Each packet contains 50 pills.

Rohingyas held with 9,000 yaba tablets at Dhaka airport

Two Rohingyas have been held at Dhaka airport with nearly 9,000 pieces of contraband yaba tablets stuffed inside their stomach.

3 killed in ‘gunfights’

Two alleged members of the outlawed Purbo Bangla Communist Party (PBCP) were killed in a “gunfight” between two rival groups in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila early yesterday, police said.

Stashed in stomach

Forensic surgeons at Dhaka Medical College morgue found 11 packets of yaba pills while conducting autopsy on a body yesterday morning.

3 ‘drug smugglers’ held in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to arrest three members of a drug smuggling racket in Dhaka and seized a huge amount of drugs from their possession.

Bodi is innocent: Kamal

Ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi’s involvement was not found in any drug smuggling case, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.

June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015

Law enforcers in Yaba trade

We are shocked that a syndicate of members of the police force were reportedly involved in smuggling Yaba on Cox's Bazar-Dhaka route.

May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015

Yaba menace pervading

WE are deeply concerned by a recent report of this newspaper revealing that about 50 lakh Yaba pills are trafficked into the country and consumed every day, most of which come from Myanmar.

March 23, 2015
March 23, 2015

2 smugglers held with 1.20 lakh yaba tablets

Detectives arrest two smugglers along with 120,000 pieces of yaba in Demra area of Dhaka

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