1 arrested with 225pcs of gold bars at Dhaka airport
Customs officials seized 225 pieces of gold bars, weighting around 23 kilograms, and arrested a man at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka tonight.
Syed Ataul Majid, who hailed from Syedpur, arrived in the airport form Singapore on a flight of Singapore airlines at around 10:30pm.
On information, the customs officials challenged him while he was passing the green channel and recovered the gold from a special belt wrapped around his waist, said HM Ehsanul Kabir, assistant commissioner of Customs.
The value of the gold is around Tk 11 crore, he added.
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