Machar Hazac (age 55) was arrested in possession of 97,500 yaba (amphetamine) tablets in Maungdaw, western Arakan State on 21 January, according to an officer from Maungdaw Police Station.
Ms Hazac was carrying a bag on her head when police on night patrol stopped her in Myo Oo Village-Tract. When the they searched her bag they found the yaba tablets wrapped in yellow cloth packages.
Ms Hazac, the daughter of Sultan Ahmed from Wra Thik Kay Ward in Maungdaw, was charged under Section 15/19 of the drug smuggling act.
Previously, on 31 December, police seized over 1.7 million yaba tablets in the western Arakan border towns of Buthidaung and Maungdaw. According to Aung Myint, a police officer, the tablets had been prepared for smuggling to Bangladesh.
Edited in English by Mark Inkey for BNI
