Existence of liquid cocaine has been found in the container seized by Customs Intelligence from Chittagong port.
Chittagong Metropolitan ADC Tanvir Arafat told the Dhaka Tribune that the sealed container contains 185 litres of liquid cocaine which was imported in the name of sunflower oil.
Earlier in primary examination, the scrutiny team of Customs Intelligence found no liquid cocaine in the sealed container brought to the port from Uruguay.
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.
On Saturday, the final result of the test found 185 litres of liquid cocaine in 107 drums of a container.
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 June 7 sealed the container in Chittagong Port’s CCT Number 3 Yard.
In DB interrogation, the owner of importer Khan Jahan Ali Limited 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.
