Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two suspected drug peddlers with illegal magic mushrooms from Hatirjheel area in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night.
According to a RAB press release, the arrestees were identified as Nagib Hasan Arnob,25 and Taifur Rashid Jahid, 23. Getting secrete information, a team of RAB-10 in association with intelligence wing of RAB Headquarters conducted a drive in the area around 1.45am.
During the drive, the team seized 120 slices of magic mushroom in five bars and two bottles of foreign liquor.
Taiful Rashid, being a regular consumer of narcotics and alcohol, got addicted to psychedelic drugs including LSD and DTM in 2019. Following his quest for new drugs since then, he learned about magic mushrooms from the dark web. Taifur then reached out to his childhood friend Naghib Hasan, a Bangladesh expatriate in Canada, for sourcing the illegal drug.
Nagib agreed to his proposal hoping to make a huge profit by selling them in Bangladesh.
The first consignment of the psychedelic drug reportedly reached Dhaka in May 2021, which was later sold at a high price by the arrestees.