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Smugglers reappear with novel strategy

From Nurul Alam
CHITTAGONG. Feb 14 : The smugglers seems to be back to their business In the port city, reportedly adopting novel means this time.
With the slackening of Ihc antt-smuggllng drive, contraband foreign goods have begun to appear in posh city market*
The kingpins of tire alleged smugglers who had earlier gone into hiding at the time of the anti smuggling crackdown, now as a test-case' have pul some glamourous ladles In lh8 forefront for trafficking In ihe contraband Items Including drugs. Informed sources said.
These glamour women who have long been in the smugglers ring, have reportedly started flying through Chittagong Calcutta. Dhaka Calcutta and Dhaka-Singapore routes to carry out their illegal deals.
Sources from city's posh markets report that a group of lady smugglers left for Calcutta last week via Dhaka to bring Indian contraband Including medicine*. The carriers arc supposed to come back this week by Calcutta-Chittagong flight a* they consider Chittagong airport to be very
convenient their purpose, sources say.
On their way to Calcutta and Singapore via Dhaka from Chittagong the lady smugglers often carry gold, drugs and other costly goods which have demands there, according to sources. They said the carriers also took order* from a section of businessmen of the posh markets here on advance contract-basis to bring contraband of their choice
The*e lady smugglers who frequently fly In their Illegal games possess dozens of pass-
ports under fictitious names, sources added.
Sources say. tire glamourous women employed for the trafficking in contraband in most of the cases work at the behest of kingpins, who live in the posh residcnUal areas of the country'* second biggest city, more or les* known to lire administration people
Witnesses say contraband goods reappeared in all the market* of the port city Immediately after the slackening of anti-smuggling drive. All kinds of contraband item* arc
available here though the prices arc a bit hlglier.
Chittagong, known a* heaven for smugglers, remained almost unhlt by the anti-smuggling drive a* the Task Force men merely raided a few shopping centres tn the city in cooperation with the member* of shop owner* association* that resulted in the recovery of nothing more than nominal Items. A senior Task Force official told The Daily Star that swoop on the hide outs of smuggled goods would begin soon.