Yaba kingpin Saiful Karim Dhaka TribuneSaiful also confessed to going underground as soon as the anti-narcotics drive commencedListed “Yaba Don” Saiful Karim divulged information on 33 other drug lords who deal in yaba smuggling across the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, shortly before his death on May 31, according to his case statement. Teknaf police station Officer-in-Charge (OC), Pradip Kumar Das, confirmed this to Dhaka Tribune, adding that efforts are already underway to arrest the people Saiful mentioned in his confession statement. According to the case, Saiful told police during questioning that he was the first to smuggle the methamphatamine-based yaba into Bangladesh, concealing the tablets inside goods imported from Myanmar. Saiful’s smuggling historyOn paper, according to law enforcement sources, Saiful Karim was a clearing and forwarding (C&F) agent and trader. He had a wood importing agency named SK International, which he reportedly used as a front to run his real operation – smuggling yaba from Myanmar.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 10, 2019 17:26 UTC