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Airport Police arrested a
Pakistani citizen today at around 5.30pm for smuggling 368 cartons of cigarettes which is
generally cannot be imported into Bangladesh. Police arrested Enamullah aged
about 25 years in front of the arrival terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal
International Airport, Dhaka.
Enamullah arrived in Dhaka by an
Emirates flight EK-586 from Dubai at around 3.45pm. Watching his movement
suspicious, intelligence members of Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn)
followed him. At one stage he avoided the customs scanning area very cunningly.
When Enamullah came out of the arrival terminal 1 of the airport, AAPBn members
challenged him but he could not give satisfactory answers to the questions of
them. Later he admitted that he has a good amount of cigarettes in his baggage.
Police found 368 cartons of cigarettes of Esse light, Esse Gold and some other
foreign brands from his bag. Upon interrogation, Enamullah admitted that one Rafique
Mahmud from Bangladesh who came along with him by the same flight is the main culprit
smuggling those illegal cigarettes into Bangladesh.
Later a legal suit was filed against him at the Airport Police Station in this connection.
