"As the greatest shipment of 'cocaine' captured in the history of the nation, the worth of the recovered cocaine is Tk100 crore"

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) detained a female resident of Malawi, an East African nation, and confiscated 8.3 kilos of cocaine from her on Wednesday night at the capital's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

After arriving at the airport on a Qatar Airways aircraft, Name of Thandazo Tauera Soko, 35, a nurse, was taken into custody by a joint team from the DNC and the Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn).

Tanvir Mamtaz, the director of operations for the DNC, stated at a news conference held this afternoon in the department's Dhaka city north headquarters in Tejgaon.

As the greatest shipment of cocaine captured in the history of the nation, he said the worth of the recovered cocaine was Taka 100 crore.

Mohammad Ziaul Haque, APBn's assistant superintendent of police claimed that 3.3kg cocaine was recovered at the Dhaka airport in 2014.

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