The arrestee was identified as Aullar Babu from Maungdaw Township in Arakan State.

Bangladesh police recovered 800 yaba tablets from the man during a search of his luggage when he arrived at a bus station in Teknaf, the Bangladesh border town opposite Maungdaw.

The police official said the yaba tablets were intended for sale in Bangladesh cities like Chittagong and Dhaka, where Burmese made yaba is in high demand and yields a large profit.

The selling price of the 800 seized yaba tablets would have been an estimated 800,000 taka, or about 15,200,000 Burmese kyat, in the capital Dhaka. The same amount would only bring in about 160,000 taka in the border area between Burma and Bangladesh.

Aullar Babu was sent to Cox’s Bazar prison yesterday by police to be charged for his involvement in drug smuggling and illegal entry, as he entered Bangladesh without solid documents.

Bangladesh authorities are now conducting an operation against yaba smuggling in Bangladesh because many young people, including students, are using the drug widely in Dhaka and Chittagong.

Many yaba syndicates have been broken up and many yaba addicts have been arrested by Bangladesh law enforcement agencies in the operation.