, Dec. 10 -- The Custom House, Chattogram has seized 4,200 kilograms of prohibited artificial sweetener Sodium Cyclamate from a container at Chattogram Port.

According to an NBR press release, the intelligence wing of Chattogram Custom House conducted the operation based on secret information, with support from the Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) in Dhaka.

The consignment was imported by Ejaz Trading, a Keraniganj-based firm, which had declared the shipment as Polyaluminium Chloride.

The container carrying 22,088 kilograms of products from China arrived at the port on October 21.

Acting on intelligence alerts, Customs officers suspended the release of the consignment and conducted a physical inspection on November 6.

During the exami...