Three put on 10-day remand over Ctg cocaine seizure

CHITTAGONG, July 2 (UNB): A court here placed on Thursday three people, arrested from the capital on June 30 in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Port, on a 10-day remand each.

Those who were remanded are Atiqur Rahman, commercial executive of Mondol Group, a garment exporter company, A K Azad, manager of Cosco Bangladesh Shipping Lines Ltd and Mostafa Kamal, an official of a developer company.

Metropolitan Magistrate Farid Alam passed the order after Bandar police produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand, said additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police Kazi Muttaki.

Liquid cocaine was detected in 107 drums of a consignment of Bolivian sunflower oil which the customs intelligence officials seized at Chittagong Port on June 8 last.

Laboratory tests on the liquid samples from the consignment have detected cocaine in the 185kg drums, which was imported under the name of Bolivian sunflower oil.

Sub-inspector of Bandar Police Station Osman Goni filed a case against Nur Mohammad, owner of 'Khan Jahan Ali Limited', and its employee Sohel under the Narcotics Control Act on June 28.

Police arrested Sohel soon after the consignment seizure and he was put on five-day remand.