The Rohingya community, who came to Bangladesh from Myanmar, have been involved in various crimes including kidnapping, drug peddling, illegal trading of counterfeit money, robbery and gold smuggling. Police say most of the criminals who are involved with the sale of drugs including Yaba, Ice and Phensedyl were identified as Rohingyas. Moreover 1,329,825 pieces of yaba, some Tk190,000 and three gold bars were recovered from them at different times. They are being used to sell and carry drugs as well.”“Recently we have recovered three gold bars from them. As many as eight gold bars, five chains, a pair of bangles, three pairs of earrings and more were seized from them.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 02, 2022 21:32 UTC