CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court has granted 10-day remand for each of the three arrestees in a case regarding recent import of liquid cocaine in guise of sunflower oil in Chittagong Port.
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Farid Alam passed the order on Thursday noon when police produced the three with a 10-day remand plea, said Chittagong Metropolitan Police’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution) Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan.
Earlier in the day, arrestees COSCO Shipping Agency’s Manager AKM Azad, Mondol Group’s Commercial Executive Atiqur Rahaman and a real estate company official Mostafa Kamal were handed over to CMP’s Detective Branch.
Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (CIID) detained the three from Dhaka and Chittagong on June 30.
Earlier, accused Golam Mostafa Sohel, manager of Prime Hatchery Limited which is a sister concern of the alleged importer of the cocaine Khan Jahan Ali Limied, was remanded for five days while another accused Khan Jahan Ali Group Chairman Nur Mohammad is on the run.
Sohel was held on June 6 on suspicion of his connection with the consignment.
On June 27, the existence of liquid cocaine was found in the laboratory test of the sample collected from the sealed sunflower oil laden container in Chittagong port.
On the following day, police lodged a case against Khan Jahan Ali Group Chairman Nur Mohammad when the court ordered police to produce Sohel showing arrest in the same case.
The CIID formed a four-member probe body in this regard and it was asked to submit report within 10 working days.
Meanwhile, a team of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), by the request of CIID, will come to Dhaka soon to determine the actual weight of the cocaine.
