The scrutiny team yesterday said it found no liquid cocaine in the sealed container brought to the port from Uruguay.
The team suspected the container was carrying liquid cocaine worth about Tk3,000 crore under the declaration of sun flower oil import, a source in the Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Failing to find out the existence of cocaine in preliminary test, they had collected samples from the container and sent them for further laboratory test.
The Chittagong Port sources said the container was loaded from Uruguay on March 30 and it arrived at Chittagong Port on May 13 via Singapore Port.
Since then, it has remained in the port’s yard and none has claimed the consignment growing suspicion among the port scrutiny team.
The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation authorities, with the information of police, on Saturday night sealed the container in Chittagong Port’s CCT Number 3 Yard.
Yesterday around 11am, the scrutiny team comprising high officials of Chittagong Port, CMP, Directorate of Narcotic Control and Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation conducted the physical examination.
According to the information, a special team of CMP’s Detective Branch led by its Additional Deputy Commissioner Tanvir Arafat, on Saturday afternoon nabbed Nur Mohammad, owner of importer Khan Jahan Ali Limited.
In DB interrogation, the owner said one of his employees identified as Sohel brought the consignment using the company’s pad and address. Later, the detective personnel nabbed Sohel while he confessed that his England expatriate cousin’s husband, through his friend, imported the consignment.
