Wednesday , March 27 2024

40 cartons of UK drug seized in city, one jailed

A joint drive led by the drug administration together with other law enforcement agencies, seized 40 cartons of unregistered and contraband foreign medicines and 10 cartons of labels from inside a cargo service office at Fakirerpool in the city.
The drive began on Sunday evening and ran through Monday morning and nabbed one Riaz Ahmed Razu, 33, manager of the A to Z Cargo service, said ATM Golam Kibria Khan, a superintendent of directorate general of drug administration.
The DGDA drug superintendent said that the seized medicines, worth about Tk 50 lakh, included 25 brands of medicines meant for curing heart burns, pains, and cardiac diseases, and antibiotics. Although the drugs were imported illegally from the U.K., they are being regularly used by patients in Bangladesh, it is learned.
After the seizure, the raiding team called in a mobile court for legal action.
He said that a mobile court led by Dhaka district administration’s executive magistrate Tawhid Elahi sentenced Razu to 2 months rigorous imprisonment and fined Tk 2 lakh, in default, to suffer simple imprisonment for 15 more days, for his involvement in importing the drugs illegally through wrongful declaration.
The executive magistrate also ordered to lodge a regular case with the drug court against the owner of the cargo company, Debesh Chandra Talukder, he said.
The drugs were primarily packaged without any detailed information. The labels, however, bear the names of Pfizer Ireland, Bristol laboratories limited, Actavis UK Limited, and Sanofi UK Limited, respectively, the DGDA superintendent said.
Golam Kibria said those drugs were sent to Dhaka from Chittagong port by the Sundarban courier service.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Ehsanur Rahman Bhuiyan who was present during the drive told New Age that the cargo company itself was importing the drugs, declaring those as laptops.
He said the cargo company has been doing it for a long time. They were under surveillance, Ehsanur Rahman said. (Source: New Age)

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