Four Bangladeshis arrested over 6kg drugs found in air freight at Velana Airport

Police have arrested four Bangladeshi nationals in connection with the smuggling of more than six kilograms of drugs into the Maldives through Velana International Airport (VIA). According to police, Maldives Customs found the drugs on the 24th of last month during an inspection of an air freight shipment after officers suspected that drugs had been concealed inside. The haul consisted of more than six kilograms of synthetic cathinone. The arrests were made following a controlled delivery operation conducted jointly by the Drug Enforcement and Counter Narcotics Intelligence and Customs, after Customs reported that 6.75 kilograms of drugs were present in a consignment that had already been brought into the Maldives. The suspects were identified as Bangladeshi nationals Md Jihad bin Arif, 20; Md Mizanur Rahman, 41; Mirza Al Amin, 30; and Md Arman Ali, 21. After the suspects were produced before the court, the court ordered Md Mizanur Rahman to be remanded until the conclusion of his trial, and the other three to be remanded for 15 days.