2 held with 9kg smuggled gold

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two more people in connection with gold smuggling and seized 80 gold bars weighing about 9.3 kilograms from their possession in city's Paltan area on Monday.
The arrestees - AKM Shamsuddin, 51, and Kamrul Hasan, 40 - ran money exchange businesses in the area.
Detectives said both men were involved in a smuggling ring and they sent money abroad for the same through their money exchange businesses.
Members of the ring already in custody from an earlier arrest told DB police about the duo's involvement, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said at a press briefing at DMP Media Centre yesterday.
A team of DB police first arrested Shamsuddin from his workplace Amin Money Exchange on DIT Extension Road around 3:30pm on Monday, the DMP official said.
Law enforcers then nabbed Kamrul, owner of City Money Exchange, from his house, he said. They also recovered 80 gold bars worth around Tk 4.5 crore from Shamsuddin's house.
According to DB, the earlier arrestees, including their ringleader Nazrul Islam Liton, were involved in the smuggling of 105 kilograms of gold worth around Tk 46 crore into the country.
The gold bars were found in toilets of a Biman flight at Shahjalal International Airport on April 26.
Detectives busted nine of Nazrul's gang members near Boarding Bridge-2 at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on June 2. The following day, they arrested Nazrul after raiding his house at Purana Paltan and seized 70 gold bars from his possession.
Nazrul and the two other arrestees are now on remand in a case involving that seizure. They revealed information about Shamsuddin and Kamrul during interrogation, the DMP joint commissioner said.