The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The Customs and Intelligence personnel held a truck carrying a huge quantity of cigarettes at Mohakhali in the capital yesterday. The haul was estimated to be worth Tk 50 lakh.

On a tip off that staff of a cigarette manufacturer were dispatching a truckload of cigarettes to Chittagong without paying taxes. The Additional Director of Customs, Gulam Mostofa, with his force stopped the truck (Dhaka Metro na-7848) at Mohakali and arrested its driver and helper. They also recovered 1,300 packets of a local brand of cigarette from the truck.

A case was filed in this connection.