Five smugglers have been detained with 70 tonnes of cement being smuggled to Myanmar from Patenga in Chattogram.
Coast Guard media officer Lieutenant Commander Sabbir Alam Sujan gave the information on Tuesday (November 10) afternoon.
“Acting on a tip-off, Coast Guard Outpost Patenga carried out a special raid at around 7am today near Ghat No. 18 on the Karnaphuli channel, under Patenga police station in Chattogram,” he said. “During the raid, a suspicious cargo boat in the area was searched, and 70,000 kg of cement worth about Tk 9 lakh 80 thousand, being carried to be smuggled illegally to Myanmar, was seized along with the boat used for smuggling, and five smugglers were detained.”
He added: “The Coast Guard will continue such operations in future to prevent smuggling.”
The process of taking legal action over the seized cement, the boat used for smuggling and the detained smugglers is under way.
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