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Dhaka: Nigerian national detained with methamphetamine

| @indiablooms | Jun 28, 2019, at 05:43 pm

Dhaka, June 28 (IBNS): The Department of Narcotics Control, or DNC, have arrested a Nigerian national who was carrying methamphetamine in Dhaka city of Bangladesh, media reports said.

The arrested person was identified as 38-year-old Ajah Anayochuka Onye Anwusi.

According to media reports, half a kilogram of Crystal Meth, a form of methamphetamine known to drug users as ice was recovered from him.

Detectives of the department held the Nigerian man with 50 grams of Ice on the road opposite to Hotel Le Meridian on Thursday evening, Md Mosaddek Hossain, additional director of DNC, told a media briefing on Friday, reported bdnews24 news portal.

Based on the information he provided, the authorities later recovered 872 grams of Crystal Meth from an apartment in Bashundhara Residential Area, reported the news portal.

Mosaddek told bdnews24, “He got involved the drug trade through the internet and later began peddling narcotics.”

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