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Cocaine scandal

Court grants 3-day remand to KJAL Chairman

Chittagong Bureau :
A Chittagong court on Sunday granted three-day remand to the chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Limited (KJAL) Nur Mohammad for his alleged involvement in bringing liquid cocaine with imported sunflower oil through Chittagong Port on June 8 in 2015. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Rahmat Ali granted the three-day remand rejecting the bail prayer of the accused.The investigation officer Mohammad Mohiuddin Faruqi of RAB-7 sought 3-day remand to interrogate Nur Mohammad. Earlier, law enforcers arrested Nur Mohammad from the city on Friday and he was sent to jail after appearing before the court.
The Custom Intelligence sealed 107 drums of sunflower oil at the NCT yard of the Chittagong Port on June 8, 2015 based on an intelligence report. Existence of liquid cocaine was found in barrels of edible oil, seized from a container at Chittagong Port, after their contents were retested in the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) and Bangladesh Drug Testing Laboratory (BDTL).
Sub-inspector of Bandar police station Osman Goni filed a case against Nur Mohammad, owner of ‘Khan Jahan Ali Limited’, and its employee Sohel under the narcotics control. Police arrested Sohel soon after the consignment seizure.Police later arrested four persons including A K Azad, Manager Cosco Bangladesh Shipping Lines limited and Golam Mostafa Sohel, manager of Khanjahan Ali Limited of Khatungonj for their alleged involvement in brining cocaine with imported sunflower oil through Chittagong Port.