DHAKA: Bangladesh Customs officers at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport have seized nearly 44 gold bars worth Tk 32 million smuggled into Bangladesh in three different flights.
Fifty-four bars were found scattered and abandoned inside a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane, which came from Oman.
Customs told that each bar weighed 6.3 kg and market price of the bars would be nearly Tk 27 million.
In the second incident, they found five gold bars on a passenger named ‘Nurus-Safa’ when his body was searched around the same time.
The man came in from Oman, too, in an Oman Air flight, the customs official added. The gold bars, each of them weighing nearly 600 grams, were worth Tk 2.5 million.
The assistant commissioner said they were taking legal measures over the incidents.
Earlier in the morning, the customs officers had recovered four more gold bars from a passenger coming in from Dubai.
Assistant Director of Customs Intelligence Department, Malekin Naser Akand, media that “Abdul Mannan, came on board a Dubai flight around 9am on Thursday.”
“Customs officials searched him and found four bars tucked away in his underwear and shoes,” the official said, adding the haul was worth Tk 2.2 million in the market.
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