Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth more than Tk 19.08 billion during anti-smuggling operations carried out across border areas and other parts of the country throughout 2025.
According to BGB headquarters’ Public Relations Officer Shariful Islam, the operations were conducted from January 1 to December 31, 2025. During this period, BGB seized large quantities of gold, silver, clothes, cosmetics, fireworks and other consumer items.
The recovered goods included 60.556 kg of gold, 168.241 kg of silver, over 1.7 lakh sarees, more than 1.26 lakh three-piece and shirt pieces, 1.33 lakh ready-made garments, over 6.87 million cosmetic items and more than 20.7 million fireworks.
BGB also seized huge quantities of essential commodities such as sugar, tea leaves, onions, garlic, cumin, fertilizer and seeds. In addition, timber, stones, coal, fuel oil, mobile phones, spectacles, chocolates, livestock and 1,708 vehicles of different types were recovered.
During the same period, BGB recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition, including pistols, SMGs, rifles, revolvers, hand grenades, mortar shells, mines, petrol bombs and cocktails, along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and gunpowder.
The border force also seized a massive amount of narcotics in 2025. These included over 14.7 million Yaba tablets, crystal meth ice, Phensedyl, foreign and local liquor, beer, cannabis, heroin, cocaine, LSD, stimulant tablets, syrups and a large number of illegal injections and medicines.
Alongside the seizures, BGB arrested 2,334 people for alleged involvement in drug trafficking and smuggling activities. Legal action was also taken against 4,238 Bangladeshi nationals, 124 Indian nationals and 7,368 Myanmar nationals for illegal border crossing during the year.
BGB said its continued operations aim to curb smuggling, drug trafficking and illegal border movement across the country.
