Police yesterday arrested one person from city’s Agrabad area for his alleged involvement with the incident of cocaine importing through Chittagong Port.
The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Mehedi, 30. A total of five persons were arrested over the incident.
SM Tanvir Arafat, additional deputy commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) police, told The Independent, “In the interrogation of the four arrestees over the incident, they gave some important information regarding Mehedi. He tried to release the container from the port. So, we have arrested him.”
On June 28, police had shown arrested Golam Mostafa Sohel in a case filed in Bandar police station lodged by Osman Gani, sub-inspector of Bandar police station under Narcotics Control Act accusing Nur Mohammad, chairman and Golam Mostafa Sohel, manager of Khanjahan Ali Limited. Golam Mostafa Sohel was the manager of Prime Hatchery, a sister concern of the firm over the seizure of liquid cocaine from a drum of edible oil at Chittagong Port that was imported by Khanjahan Ali Limited from Bolivia.
On June 30 this year police arrested Atikur Rahman, business executive of Mandal Group, a business firm of readymade garments exporters, A K Azad, director of corporate, sales and marketing of Bangladesh Shipping Lines Limited and Mostafa Kamal, an official of a private developer company from Dhaka over cocaine seizure.