The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized various types of smuggled goods worth Tk 225 crore 88 lakh 78 thousand by conducting raids in different border areas and other places last October.
A total of 616 people including 243 smugglers and 28 Indian nationals were detained during the raids. Besides, 1,298 Myanmar citizens were also repatriated to their ancestral land, according to a BGB press release issued on Thursday.
The seized contraband items includes, 986 grams of gold, 14,302 sarees, 15,023 three pieces/shirt pieces/chadars/blankets/readymade garments, 27,652 meters of cloth, 250,722 cosmetics items, 3,149 cubic feet of wood, 2,265 kgs of tea leaves, 4,16,711 kgs of sugar, 4,130 kgs of fertilizer, 86,750 cft of coal, 20,440 mobile displays, 40,640 spectacles, 942 kgs of yarn, 15,334 kgs of betel nuts, 90,904 kgs of garlic, 1,318 kgs of onion, 22,889 kgs of Jira, four touchstone idols, 21 trucks, 24 pickup vans, five private cars and microbuses, nine trolleys, 347 boats, 53 CNG and easy bikes, 81 motorbikes and 24 bicycles.
Besides, locally-made firearms including two pistols, three guns, one rifle, one revolver, three grenades, one rocket bomb, two magazines and 270 rounds of bullets were also recovered from ongoing drive in different times in October.
