DHAKA: Customs Intelligence officials detained a man and seized gold bars and ornaments weighing around 16 kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday night.
The detainee is SM Nurul Islam.
On secret information, the customs intelligence officials recovered the gold bars from a toilet at the departure immigration hall of the airport around 10:45 pm.
The seized gold was being counted till filing of the report.
Customs intelligence director general Moinul Khan said several gold bars weighing 10 grams each and a huge number of gold ornaments were recovered worth almost Tk 8 crore.
Moinul Khan said Nurul Islam is a staff of airport cleaning firm Anik-Ayan trade international.
