Navy arrests 11 with huge cement, diesel while smuggling to Myanmar

NN ONLINE:

The Bangladesh Navy has arrested 11  smugglers including an engine-powered boat with huge cement and diesel being  smuggled to Myanmar from the Kutubdia outer anchorage area in the Bay of Bengal.

Acting on a tip-off, the Navy members seized the boat last Friday and  recovered 1000 liters of diesel and 650 bags of Bangladeshi diamond cement (Shah Cement) from their possession, said a release of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) this evening. Those seized items were smuggled to Myanmar illegally by evading custom duties through sea routes by the engine-powered boats, it said.

Based on secret information in Saint Martin and the adjacent areas, the  Bangladesh Navy Ship Shahid Mohibullah earlier kept watch on a suspicious  fishing boat identified as ‘FB Ankita Anbesha’ about 42 miles away from the Kutubdia lighthouse.

Later, the seized goods and the arrested were handed over to Patenga Model Police Station for legal action, the ISPR added.