Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized smuggled goods and contraband drugs worth over Tk 715 million in mostly frontier areas across the country throughout September this year.
The seized narcotics included 1,454,390 pieces of yaba pills, 8,108 bottles of foreign liquors, 916 litre of local liquors, 1,688 cans of beer, 24,179 bottles of phensidyl, 1,196kg cannabis, 4.697kg heroin, 284,874 pieces of sex-stimulating tablets and 648,090 pieces of other tablets.
Other seized smuggled goods included 1.697-kg gold, 3,026 pieces of Sharees, 1,283 pieces of three pieces/shirt pieces, 225 meters fabrics, 488 pieces readymade garments, six trucks, four pick-up, and 10 CNG-run auto-rickshaws, 55 motorcycles and 14,107 cubic feet wood and also 10,108 kilograms tea.
The paramilitary force also seized three pistols, one gun, a one-shooter gun, one revolver, nine round bullets and six magazines.
Besides, the BGB team also arrested 136 people on charges of smuggling and 121 others for their illegal trespassing.
The BGB has so far seized a huge quantity of smuggled contraband narcotics and goods worth nearly Tk 7 billion from Jan 1 to Sept 30 this year.