smuggling

Smuggled goods seized at Sylhet border on 18 July 2025. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

BGB seizes smuggled Indian goods worth Tk6cr from Sylhet border areas

The goods include Indian sarees, skin brightening creams, sunglasses, cattle, and boats used for illegal stone extraction

Indian customs officers in Mumbai said they have stopped a plane passenger arriving from Thailand with a wriggling cargo of live snakes, the third such seizure this month Photo: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
South Asia

Snakes on a plane bound for India, again

According to DB sources, police recovered 1,207 sarees, 1,288 three-piece suits, and 13 bundles of unstitched fabric from a covered van and a car. Photo: DMP
Crime

Smuggled Indian women's clothing worth Tk41 lakh seized in Dhaka; 1 arrested

Coast Guard officials with smugglers and smuggled goods in Cox's Bazar on 14 June 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Crime

Coast Guard seizes fertiliser, energy drinks worth Tk8 lakh in Cox’s Bazar; detains 6

Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

BGB strengthens border patrols to prevent smuggling of sacrificial animal hides

File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Bangladesh

BGB tightens border security in Cumilla, Feni, and Brahmanbaria to curb rawhide smuggling, push-ins

A border area in Tekanf. File photo: TBS
Crime

10 sued over smuggling of construction materials to Myanmar using forged Teknaf UNO letter

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Elephant found dead in Ctg; tusk, nails reportedly smuggled

Police present the five suspected smugglers along with seized goods before the media on 5 April 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Crime

5 arrested with 1.15 kg gold, electronics, foreign cigarettes in Ctg’s Patenga

Two men arrested by Teknaf police for attempting to smuggle juice, soft drinks, milk, and muri to Myanmar on 7 March. Photo: Courtesy
Crime

Two arrested while 'smuggling' 143 cartons of milk, juice, soft-and-energy drinks, 60kg muri

File photo of Benapole land port in Jashore. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Scanner installed at Benapole port to check smuggling

A Border Security Force (BSF) official stands in front of the gates of the India-Bangladesh international border in Petrapole, India, October 16, 2024. REUTERS/Sahiba Chawdhary
South Asia

Grains for gold: Indian export curbs drive boom in barter smuggling

Photo shows foreign currency including Saudi Arabian Riyals, Omani Riyals, and UAE Dirhams worth Tk50.58 lakh that was confiscated on Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport on Wednesday, 4 December 2024. Photo: Collected
Crime

Man caught in Ctg airport trying to smuggle Tk50 lakh worth foreign currency inside vegetables