Int'l drug syndicates use Bangladesh as alternative route
Bangladesh, with its longest borders with India on three sides and with Myanmar on the northeast has become very risky and vulnerable....
Trafficking different types of intoxicating drug through Bangladesh has increased in recent days, which becomes a major concern of the high-ups in the government.(The New Nation )
According to the intelligence sources, international drug syndicates have been using the country as a safe corridor for smuggling drugs.
The syndicates also see Bangladesh as an alternate route when the routes through India and Myanmar have become risky for them.
Earlier, they used those through Myanmar and India for smooth smuggling, they added. A senior official of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) requesting anonymity told The New Nation, "It seems that Bangladesh is increasingly being used as a 'country of transit' of heroin using Hazrat Shah Jalal Airport and the seaport of Chittagong as exit-points."
The trafficking zones in Bangladesh are: the vast forests and terrain areas of Hill Tracts; the transportations are: Bangladeshi, Myanmar and Thai fishing trawlers, which are being safely used for trafficking heroin.
Especially, heroin, cocaine, phencidyl (codiene), yaba, marijuana and different kinds of liquor are smuggled in the country by ships, fishing trawlers and airways.Using drugs has spread from urban areas to rural areas in recent days. The most frequently used drug is heroin, thereafter is phensidyl (Codeine based cough syrup) and the third highest is cannabis, illegally avail transit from India.
Besides, officials of the DNC recovered a huge quantity of other drugs in the recent years, such as: charas, cannabis, poppy seed, fermented wash (zauwa), bakhar, tari, pachwai, country liquor, beer, pethidine, morphine, buprenorphin injection, rectified sprit, denatured sprit, tablet (codinal, diazepam, etc.) toluene, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, potassium permanganate, tetrahydrocanabinal and others.
Sources said heroin usually produced in the North Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and India is generally trafficked into the foreign countries through Calcutta, Madras and Mumbai routes of India and through Thailand and Yangoon.
Bangladesh, with its longest borders with India on three sides and with Myanmar on the northeast has become very risky and vulnerable for drug trafficking and abuse in the recently.
DNC officials said Bangladesh has borders with India on its three sides except the south, which stands on the Bay of Bangal. The three border routes are: the western routes with India are - Darshana, Zibannagar of Chuadanga, Hili and Birol of Dinajpur and Moghulhat, Aditmari, Durgapur, Fulbari, Nageshwari of Kurigram and Nawabgonj, Rajshahi, Meherpur and Debhat and Kaliganj of Khulna and Benapole and Chowgacha of Jessore.
Eastern Routes are: Akhaura, Zhautala, Sadullahpur, Nawagaon, Singer bil, Col. bazar, Gangasagar and Kasba of B.Baria, Bibirbazar, Chagalnaiya, Maharajganj and Gutuma of Feni, Barkal and Baghaichari of Rangamati, Chittagong, Teknaff of Cox's Bazar, Dighinala, Panchari, and Matiranga of Khagrachari.
Northern Routes are Haluaghat (Telikhali/ Karaitali/Surjyapur/Bandarkata/ Munsirhat/ Munshipara) of Mymensing and Durgapur (Bijoypur and Bhabani area) of Netrokona and Bangla Banda, Bhurungabari, Jhenaigati, Sunamganj, Tamabil.
On the other side of Indian borders, there are factories/industries of manufacturing codeine based narcotics (with 'Phensidyl as trade name) and are being trafficked into Bangladesh, where BSF and BDR are guarding borders on their respective sides, the officials added.
Of the smuggled drugs, phensdyl syrup entering in the country from neighbouring India has been alarmingly increasing.DNC officials' noted phencidyl, a popular item to the drug addicts is actually a mixture of codeine. It is a class 'one' narcotic liquid, officials added.
Phencidyle has been trafficked into Bangladesh by buses, trucks and other vehicles packed in different baggages and luggages through the above border areas in the trade name of phensidyl.
According to the intelligence sources, international drug syndicates have been using the country as a safe corridor for smuggling drugs.
The syndicates also see Bangladesh as an alternate route when the routes through India and Myanmar have become risky for them.
Earlier, they used those through Myanmar and India for smooth smuggling, they added. A senior official of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) requesting anonymity told The New Nation, "It seems that Bangladesh is increasingly being used as a 'country of transit' of heroin using Hazrat Shah Jalal Airport and the seaport of Chittagong as exit-points."
The trafficking zones in Bangladesh are: the vast forests and terrain areas of Hill Tracts; the transportations are: Bangladeshi, Myanmar and Thai fishing trawlers, which are being safely used for trafficking heroin.
Especially, heroin, cocaine, phencidyl (codiene), yaba, marijuana and different kinds of liquor are smuggled in the country by ships, fishing trawlers and airways.Using drugs has spread from urban areas to rural areas in recent days. The most frequently used drug is heroin, thereafter is phensidyl (Codeine based cough syrup) and the third highest is cannabis, illegally avail transit from India.
Besides, officials of the DNC recovered a huge quantity of other drugs in the recent years, such as: charas, cannabis, poppy seed, fermented wash (zauwa), bakhar, tari, pachwai, country liquor, beer, pethidine, morphine, buprenorphin injection, rectified sprit, denatured sprit, tablet (codinal, diazepam, etc.) toluene, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, potassium permanganate, tetrahydrocanabinal and others.
Sources said heroin usually produced in the North Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and India is generally trafficked into the foreign countries through Calcutta, Madras and Mumbai routes of India and through Thailand and Yangoon.
Bangladesh, with its longest borders with India on three sides and with Myanmar on the northeast has become very risky and vulnerable for drug trafficking and abuse in the recently.
DNC officials said Bangladesh has borders with India on its three sides except the south, which stands on the Bay of Bangal. The three border routes are: the western routes with India are - Darshana, Zibannagar of Chuadanga, Hili and Birol of Dinajpur and Moghulhat, Aditmari, Durgapur, Fulbari, Nageshwari of Kurigram and Nawabgonj, Rajshahi, Meherpur and Debhat and Kaliganj of Khulna and Benapole and Chowgacha of Jessore.
Eastern Routes are: Akhaura, Zhautala, Sadullahpur, Nawagaon, Singer bil, Col. bazar, Gangasagar and Kasba of B.Baria, Bibirbazar, Chagalnaiya, Maharajganj and Gutuma of Feni, Barkal and Baghaichari of Rangamati, Chittagong, Teknaff of Cox's Bazar, Dighinala, Panchari, and Matiranga of Khagrachari.
Northern Routes are Haluaghat (Telikhali/ Karaitali/Surjyapur/Bandarkata/ Munsirhat/ Munshipara) of Mymensing and Durgapur (Bijoypur and Bhabani area) of Netrokona and Bangla Banda, Bhurungabari, Jhenaigati, Sunamganj, Tamabil.
On the other side of Indian borders, there are factories/industries of manufacturing codeine based narcotics (with 'Phensidyl as trade name) and are being trafficked into Bangladesh, where BSF and BDR are guarding borders on their respective sides, the officials added.
Of the smuggled drugs, phensdyl syrup entering in the country from neighbouring India has been alarmingly increasing.DNC officials' noted phencidyl, a popular item to the drug addicts is actually a mixture of codeine. It is a class 'one' narcotic liquid, officials added.
Phencidyle has been trafficked into Bangladesh by buses, trucks and other vehicles packed in different baggages and luggages through the above border areas in the trade name of phensidyl.
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