Cobra venom worth Tk 1,000m recovered: 1 held

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel arrested a young man and recovered from him cobra venom worth Tk 1,000 million at Benapole under Sarsa Upazila in Jessore on Friday night. BGB also seized a private car from the possession of the arrestee, identified as Mohammad Milon Kazi, 28, son of Akbar Kazi of Kathmari village under Benapole union. Being tipped off, a team of BGB-26 Battalion intercepted a Jessore-bound private car around 10.00pm and recovered 12 pounds and two ounces of the snake venom, kept in seven jars, from the backside of the vehicle, said commanding officer of BGB-26 Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Jahangir Hossain. He said, the present market value of the seized cobra venom is worth Tk 1,000 million (Tk 100 crore). A case was filed, according to UNB.