Despite repeated use of courier services by transnational syndicates to smuggle drugs through Bangladesh to a third country, the government has turned down a proposal to use the National Identity Card server to verify the identity of the product sender.
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) had placed the proposal before a virtual meeting of the National Narcotics Control Advisory Committee on December 28 last year. The DNC had said the courier and cargo service companies should be granted access to the NID server.
The advisory committee, led by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, also rejected another proposal seeking use of narcotics detection devices to check whether there are drugs in packets to be sent abroad by courier service companies.
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2kgs crystal meth recovered from drive in Teknaf Rohingya camp: DNC
One arrested, the other accused on the run
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The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) said they have recovered a big consignment of highly addictive crystal meth near a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, known as the traditional gateway of yaba pills into Bangladesh from Myanmar.
A DNC team conducted the drive near Rohingya camp 28 of Teknaf upazila and recovered two kilogrammes of crystal meth, also known as ice, and arrested a Bangladeshi national named Md Abdullah, 31.
Muhammad Ahsanul Jabbar, director general of DNC, disclosed the information while addressing a briefing at DNC headquarters in the capital s Segunbagicha this afternoon.
Big haul of meth seized in Teknaf
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The Department of Narcotics Control said it seized two kilogrammes of highly addictive crystal methamphetamine, popularly known as Ice, near a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Cox s Bazar.
Officers arrested 31-year-old Abdullah, a Bangladeshi, during the raid on Rohingya Camp-28.
There is no established market for the substance in Bangladesh, said DNC Director General Ahsanul Jabbar, adding that the estimated price of the recovered substance would be around Tk 10 crore.
The rich people are the usual consumers of the substance, Jabbar told a press briefing at the DNC office in the capital s Segunbagicha yesterday.