Monday, January 4, 2016, Poush 21, 1422 BS, Rabiul Awal 22, 1437 Hijri


BGB haul in 2015
Staff Correspondent
Published :Monday, 4 January, 2016,  Time : 12:00 AM  View Count : 27
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth Tk 786 crore 72 lakh, detained 2,216 alleged drug smugglers, 1,492 people for crossing the international border illegally and prevented 6,592 Myanmar citizens from entering the country last year.
BGB in separate drives around the country seized 5,056,410 pieces of banned Yaba tablets, 479,536 bottles of phensedyl, 10 kg of heroin, 10,196 kg of marijuana, 309,776 bottles of foreign-made alcohol, 692,887 pieces of different types of aphrodisiac tablets, 55,480 ampoules of intravenous drugs and 25,471,428 pieces of banned tablets.
 Apart from these drugs, they seized 154, 201 pieces of sarees, 44,735 three-piece or shirt pieces, 814,247 metre long-clothes, 56,870 pieces of readymade dresses, 39,364 CFT of wood, 175,899 different machinery parts, 22 kg 329 gram of gold and 33 touchstone sculptures. BGB also seized 67 pistols, 40 guns, 54 kinds of bombs and cocktails, 4,043 round of bullets, 63 magazines, 29 Improvised Explosive Devises (IED) and 44 kg 900 gram of gunpowder in different drives around the country last year.









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