BGB seizes smuggled goods worth Tk172.2cr in November

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized lots of sorts of smuggled goods price Tk172.2 crore in November from frontiers and other places across the country.

All over the length, the BGB personnel arrested 209 smugglers, 492 Bangladeshi voters and 11 Indian nationals on costs of crossing border illegally and took needed correct action in opposition to them, said a BGB press initiate issued this day (9 December).

They additionally detained 2,597 Myanmar voters and sent them encourage to their country later, it added.

The seized contraband devices are – 8.570 kilograms (Kgs) of gold, 16.795-kg of silver, 15,703 devices of saris, 22,840 devices of three-piece, shirt devices, bedsheets and blankets, 14,406 ready-made clothes, 29,529 meters of cloth, 2,90,900 cosmetics, 7,661 imitation goods, 15,689 cubic feet of wood, 6,828-kg of tea leaves, 4,16,727-kg of sugar, 5,713-kg of fertilizer, 1,33,370-kg of coal, 720 cubic feet of stone, 1,000 cubic feet of sand, 593 cell displays, 36,223 glasses, 8,623-kg of lots of fruits, 49,754-kg of Bangladeshi garlic, 22,916-kg of cumin and one stone statue.

The BGB additionally seized 10 vehicles, one bus, seven pickups, six private vehicles, microbuses, seven trolleys, 162 boats, 50 CNG-drag easy bikes, 78 bikes, 11 vehicles and 23 bicycles which were passe for smuggling.

All over the length, the paramilitary force additionally recovered firearms that consist of six pistols, eight weapons, one every rifle and revolver, seven cocktails, four magazines and 421 spherical of bullets.

In addition, a neat quantity of contraband narcotics used to be additionally seized by the BGB crew final month.

The seized remedy and narcotics consist of 9,66,696 devices of Yaba capsules, 1.25-kg of crystal meth ice, 6.737-kg of heroin, 23,449 bottles of Phensedyl, 15,549 bottles of international liquor, 393 liters of Bengali liquor, 805 cans of beer, 1,309-kg of marijuana, 1,25,114 packets of bidis and cigarettes, 1,50,922 narcotic capsules/injections, 3,239 bottles of Escafe syrup, 18.898-kg of cocaine, 590 bottles of MKDil/Kofidil, 1,145,098 devices of lots of medicines and capsules, 14,436 Angro/Senegra capsules and 23 bottles of LSD.