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Bank checks brought from drug dealer’s house not on seizure list, assistant director’s office ‘sealed’
After arresting a drug dealer with Yaba in a raid in Tongi area of Gazipur, officials of the Narcotics Control Department went to his house and took a bank check. They did not show the check in the seizure list of the case filed in June. Four officers, including an assistant director of the department, have been removed from duty in this incident.
Bank checks brought from drug dealer’s house not on seizure list, assistant director’s office ‘sealed’
The office of the assistant director has been sealed. He admitted that a bank check was found among the evidence recovered in the raid. It could not be confirmed how much the check was. However, an officer aware of the incident said that it was a check of several lakhs of taka. Sources said that it is not a normal occurrence for a bank check found in the house of the accused in the raid not to be shown in the seizure list. An attempt was made to withdraw money with that bank check.
Sources from the Narcotics Control Department said that an investigation into the matter began when the family of the arrested drug dealer complained to the head office of the Narcotics Control Department. After receiving the initial truth of the complaint, the four officers who went on the raid were removed from duty and attached to the head office on Wednesday night. In addition, the office of Marfia Afroza, Assistant Director of the Dhaka Divisional Intelligence Department of the Narcotics Control Department, who was involved in the operation, was sealed. She has also been questioned about the matter.
On June 22, the intelligence officers of the Narcotics Control Department arrested a drug dealer named Md. Ramiz Uddin with Yaba from in front of Tongi Government College in Gazipur. Later, the officers took Ramiz to his rented house in Dakshin Kha Para, Tongi. After searching his house, 15,000 Yaba pills were recovered in two polybags. Ramiz’s family alleged that at that time, the officers brought a bank check of a large amount of money from the house.
