One held with foreign currencies
Customs intelligence officials detained a man with foreign currencies, worth over Tk 25 lakh, at the Dhaka airport early yesterday.
Md Osman, 44, of Chittagong, with the currencies, including Saudi and Oman riyals, which were hidden in a shopping bag, was trying to board a Dubai-bound flight of Bangladesh Biman Airlines, said Moinul Khan, director general of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate.
Osman admitted that he was smuggling the money to buy goods from abroad, Moinul said.
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