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After arresting four people in the incident, police say they were running a yaba business in ‘religious garb’ so that people in the area would not be suspicious.
Deputy City Police Commissioner (DC-South) SM Mehedi Hasan said Bakalia police raided the house in the new residential area of Chandgaon on Friday afternoon.
Those arrested are- Md. Forkan alias Masud (31), his wife Shamim Ara Shami (26), Mubarak Hossain (38) and Md. Russell (18).
Mehdi Hasan told bdnews24.com that two people were arrested on November 5 in the area of the Shah Amanat bridge and the Leda Rohingya camp in Teknaf with foreign guns for allegedly collecting weapons in exchange for yaba and storing them in the Rohingya camp.
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“Today is the fourth day of interrogation after the two detainees were in preventive detention for five days. In preventive detention, they talk about the participation of this fork with his gang.”
Based on that information, Forkan and Masood were arrested in the Shah Amanat bridge area in the morning along with a thousand yaba. When they were later questioned, they informed the police about keeping yaba at the home of the new Chandgaon resident.
Deputy Commissioner Mehedi said that according to the information, the police raided the third floor of a building known as the Haji Saheb Building on Highway 4 in the residential area. From there, 23,200 yabas and eight lakh 63,622 rupees in cash and 12 check stubs from three banks were seized.
Police also found some magnets in the home, believed to have been used to carry yaba bags under the seat of a vehicle or attached to a bag.
On the night after the raid, Mehdi told reporters that the house raided was the house rented by Forkan. He lived there with his wife and children. He is known as a godly person in the area.
“They used to run the yaba business mainly wearing religious garb. They kept several religious books at home so that no one would suspect them. “
One of the detainees has direct contact with Myanmar and another with the Rohingya camps. Deputy Commissioner Mehdi said they reached out to Yaba from the Myanmar and Rohingya camps via WhatsApp.
He said: “These yaba forks were taken home and put away. From there it was delivered to different places. The yaba was recovered from several places, including a bookcase in his home. In addition to cash, Forkan and his wife’s passport, checkbook, and various other documents were seized. ”
Shahida Akhter, a member of the Chittagong District Council, lives on the second floor of the building. He told bdnews24.com that he knew Forkan as a religious man.
“He spoke to everyone in an elegant way. He was seen hiding in the street at different times and talking on the phone, but there was no question about it.”
Residents of the adjoining building. Selim said Forkan has a grocery store in the Bahaddarhat area. Everyone in the area “respected” him as a godly man. Every day he invited the people of the area to pray and preach.
The additional (southern) deputy commissioner of the city police, Palash Kanti Nath, told bdnews24.com that they had received information that Forkan had a yaba business in several places, including Feni and Cox’s Bazar. He used different names in those areas.
Bakalia Police Station OC Nezam Uddin said that when they raided, Forkan’s wife removed the yaba from various locations, including shelves and bags. His wife graduated in Physics from Chittagong College. You have participated in the BCS exam more than once for a government job.
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