Dhaka, Oct. 15 -- The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has arrested four people, including a Chinese national, in Dhaka's Uttara on suspicion of smuggling medicines abroad, seizing drugs worth Tk 75 million.

The elite police unit said the group bought medicines for cancer and other complicated diseases at lower prices than abroad and sent them to Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries by courier.

The four were arrested during a raid in Uttara on Wednesday night on charges of illegally exporting medicines and evading taxes, the SRB said in a media statement.

The suspects are Chinese national Li Fen, 34, Bakul Nahar Bithi, 24, Yunus Ali, 26, and Sajib Howlader, 28.

Tk 606,140 in cash was seized along with the medicines.

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