Rohingya couple held with Yaba pills, Tk 1.17 cr in Chattogram

Tipped off, a team of RAB-7 conducted a drive in the area and arrested the couple along with 5,300 Yaba pills and cash Tk 1.17 crore from a house in Chandgaon Residential area of Chattogram City

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a Rohingya couple along with 5,300 Yaba pills and cash Tk 1.17 crore from a house in Chandgaon Residential area of Chattogram City on Monday.

The arrestees were identified as Shwakat Islam, 32 and his wife Rozina, 28.

Tipped off, a team of RAB-7 conducted a drive in the area and arrested the couple in the morning, said Mahmudul Hasan Mamun, media officer of RAB-7.

They had long been involved in Yaba trading after collecting those from Myanmar, said RAB.

A case was filed against them for trespassing into the country and another for possessing durgs.