Customs officials have seized 160kg of cannabis which was delivered to Bangladesh by post from African countries of Ethiopia.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime defines the synthetic cannabinoid strain, known as Ethiopian marijuana, as a new psychoactive substance (NPS).
Officials opened the nine cartons of NPS on Saturday three days after the drugs were jointly monitored by the customs and the National Security Intelligence (NSI), Dhaka Customs House Deputy Commissioner Othello Chowdhury told Bangla Tribune.
Chowdhury told that the cartons had been marked as suspicious after they arrived by a Jet Airways flight on Sept 6.
According to Othello, the shipment was marked for Esha Enterprise in Turag Thana’s Badaldi area and was sent from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa by Ziad Muhammad Yusuf.
On Aug 31, another consignment of new drug substance weighing 460kg was seized at the airport.