Rapid Action Battalion 7 seized 500,000 yaba from a fishing boat at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port yesterday late at night and arrested seven smugglers in this connection.
RAB 7 Commanding Officer Lt Colonel Miftah Uddin Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune that they conducted the drive around 11pm and detained a fishing trawler, MT Hena, with six fishermen and a boatman following a tip-off.
He said: "The fishing trawler was coming from the direction of Myanmar. This gang was smuggling yaba for quite a while."
The seven arrestees – Mohammad Hannan, 40, Lokman, 33, Rasel, 30, Elias, 18, Oliullah, 21, Reaz, 19, and Osman, 20 – were handed over to Patenga police station and a case was filed in this connection.
So far RAB 7 seized 1,055,115 yaba tablets in 2015, said RAB 7 Media Officer Assistant Superintendent of Police Sohel Mahmud.
Sources at different law enforcement agencies said yaba smugglers were bringing the drug into the country from neighbouring Myanmar by fishing trawlers.
Bangladesh Coast Guard (East) Zonal Commander Captain Shahidul Islam said the smugglers easily convinced the fishermen with the offer of good money and telling them that the tablets were medicine. Most of the times, the fishermen did not know that they were carrying contraband items, he added.
Directorate of Narcotic Control, Chittagong Metro region's Superintendent Inspector Chowdhury Imrul Hasan said the smugglers used the sea route as only the coastguard and Bangladesh Navy watched the sea whereas the land routes were under surveillance of many law enforcement agencies.
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