Holistic approach needed to stop drug trade in Bangladeshi prisons

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

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. 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Media reports reveal the shocking existence of a syndicate of members of the police force that are allegedly involved in smuggling Yaba drugs.

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

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.

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