Shillong, Sept 27: Customs sleuths have seized a huge haul of methamphetamine tablets worth Rs. 19 crore from a place along the Meghalaya-Assam border.

Customs official on Thursday said that the methamphetamine tablets were to be taken to Bangladesh via Meghalaya.

Customs officials said that the accused, an international drug kingpin and his driver were arrested on Wednesday from their hideout at Killing village in Ri-Bhoi district.

The accused hails from Manipur’s Moreh village along the India-Myanmar border.

Deputy Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), Isaac Kharkongor said the main accused was arrested after receiving input that a huge consignment of Metamphetamine tablets weighing 19.7 Kilogram meant for him was dispatched from Imphal in a white Scorpio on Tuesday.

The main accused then flew to Guwahati airport to receive the Metamphetamine tablets at Killing village. The the Metamphetamine tablets were to be transshipped by road to Bangladesh via Garo Hills.

The Metamphetamine tablets were concealed inside the spare tyre and in the rear wall of the vehicle.

The arrested persons have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances, Act.