BGB seizes smuggled goods worth Tk 225 crore, detains 616 people in Oct

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized various types of smuggled goods worth Taka 225 crore 88 lakh 78 thousand by conducting raids in different border areas and other places last month (October)

A total of 616 people including 243 smugglers and 28 Indian nationals were detained during the raids. Besides, 1,298 Myanmar citizens also repatriated to their ancestral land, according to a BGB press release issued today.

Among the contraband items seized are: 14,302 sarees, 15,023 three-pieces, shirt pieces, chadars, blankets, and ready-made garments; 27,652 meters of cloth; 2,50,722 cosmetics items; 3,149 cubic feet of wood; 2,265 kg of tea leaves; 4,16,711 kg of sugar; 4,130 kg of fertilisers; 86,750 cubic feet of coal; 20,440 mobile displays; 40,640 spectacles; 942 kg of yarn; 15,334 kg of betel nuts; 90,904 kg of garlic, 1,318 kg of onion, 22,889 kg of Jira; five private cars and microbuses; nine trolleys; 347 boats; 53 CNG and easy bikes; and 24 bicycles.

Besides, locally-made firearms including two pistols, three guns, one rifle, one revolver, three grenades, one rocket bomb, two magazines and 270 rounds of bullets were also recovered from ongoing drive in different times in October last.

The paramilitary BGB also seized huge amount of illegal drugs and narcotics. These includes, 5, 90,977 pieces of Yaba tablets, 3.195 kgs of Ice (Crystal methamphetamine), 11. 802 kgs of heroin, 26,599 bottles of Phensidyl, 21,605 bottles of foreign liquor, 444 liters of local liquor, 988 cans of beer, 1,412 kgs of ganja, 1,40,196 packets of bidis and cigarettes, 74,656 narcotic tablets and injections, 4,362 bottles of Indian Iscaf syrup, 19.333 kgs of cocaine, 1,859 bottles of Mkdil and  cofidil, 5,54,558 different types of drugs, 2,21,346 Engro and Senegra tablets, 20 bottles of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and 7,59,340 other tablets.

For illegally crossing the border, 243 smugglers, 345 citizens of Bangladesh, and 28 citizens of India have been charged with crimes.

The BGB also stated that 1,298 citizens of Myanmar were repatriated following their detention last month.