Cocaine haul: One more placed on remand

A Chittagong court on Monday placed another man, Mohammed Mehedi, on a five-day remand in connection with liquid cocaine smuggling case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Farid Alam passed the order after police produced Mehedi before the court seeking a five-day remand.
On Sunday, a team from the detective branch of police arrested Mehedi, 30, an employee of a securities company in Chittagong, from Agrabad of the port city in connection with liquid cocaine halt at Chittagong Port on June 8.
With Mehedi, five people have been arrested in this connection.
The four other arrestees 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 and Golam Mostofa Shohel, an official of Khan Jahan Ali Limited.
On July 2, three of them -Atiqur Rahman, A K Azad and Mostafa Kamal were put on a 10-day remand each while on June 30, Golam Mostafa Sohel was put on a five-day remand.
Meanwhile, Chittagong Metropolitan Police formed a 10-member probe body to interrogate the arrestees and investigate the whole incident.
Earlier, Liquid cocaine has been detected in one of the 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 liquid of one of 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 Sunday last.