Drug trader held with opium worth about Tk3.5cr

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive on Monday detained a drug trader with 3.580 kilograms (KGs) of opium worth about Tk 3.5 crore from Keranihat area of Bandarban road under Satkania upazila in Chattogram.

The detainee is Suman Tanchangya, 28, son of Prabhat Tanchangya, hailed from Bakichra area of Bandarban Sadar.

Based on secret information, a team of RAB-7, detained Sumon Tanchangya from the said area ,said Nurul Abshar, Senior Assistant Director (Media).

The RAB team recovered 3,580 grams of opium wrapped in black polythene inside the plastic bag from his possession. The estimated value of the recovered drugs is worth about Tk 3.58 crore.

He also said that Suman Tanchangya is an active member of a terrorist gang of Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) area.

In order to collect money, they have been collecting drugs (opium) from the remote hilly areas for a long time and selling it to the drug dealers and drug addicts in different parts of the country, he added.

He has been handed over to the concerned police station for taking legal action.