Two Bangladeshi women were arrested along with 25,000 yaba tablets by Border Guards Bangladesh, formerly known as Bangladesh Rifles, on the Teknaf - Cox's Bazar highway near the Burmese border, according to the official BGB report...
Dhaka: Two Bangladeshi women were arrested along with 25,000 yaba tablets by Border Guards Bangladesh, formerly known as Bangladesh Rifles, on the Teknaf - Cox's Bazar highway near the Burmese border, according to the official BGB report.
The border forces arrested the two women at Morit Cha Bazar with the yaba in their possession yesterday as they tried to pass a BGB checkpoint in a rickshaw.
The two women were identified as Jaysa Mi Prokaya Bayar, 30-year-old wife of Ayu Ali, and Rachayda Adra, 28-year-old wife of Ali Aham, from a village bordering Teknaf Township opposite Burma's Maungdaw.
The yaba tablets had been smuggled in from Burma for sale in the Dhaka and Chittangong markets, where Burmese-made yaba is in high demand, the source said.
According to local officials, in 2010 the Bangladesh border force has seized 2.5 million yaba tablets at the Morit Cha checkpoint on the Teknaf - Cox's Bazar highway near the western Burmese border. 570 yaba traffickers were also arrested in Bangladesh during the past year.
On 20 December, 2010, in Taungup at the foot of the Arakan Roma where Arakan connects with Burma proper, 30,000 yaba tablets worth 50 million kyat were seized by police when the drugs were being transported to Bangladesh through Sittwe and Maungdaw by ferry.
