DHAKA, Jan 26 (NNN-BSS) – A total of 8.3 kg cocaine was seized in Bangladesh’s main airport, in the capital, Dhaka, on Wednesday night, by the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), in the country’s biggest drug bust.
Tanvir Momtaz, the DNC’s director, told journalists yesterday that, a Malawian woman has been arrested in connection with the seizure.
He said, the contraband was being carried by the woman who entered Bangladesh from Ethiopia.
Tipped off that a consignment of cocaine would arrive in Dhaka, via an African national, on a Qatar Airways flight, he said, a joint team of the airport Armed Police Battalion and the DNC conducted a raid and found the contraband from her luggage.
“This seizure of solid cocaine is the biggest in Bangladesh’s history,” said the official, adding, the estimated street value of the cocaine is around one billion taka (about 10 million U.S. dollars)– NNN-BSS
