Customs recover 64kg gold at HISA

Customs yesterday recovered at least 64kg gold from the cargo section of the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Following a tip-off, a team of customs searched the cargo section around 5:30pm and recovered the gold in four crates, Moazzam Hossain, commissioner of the Customs House told The Daily Star.

“We recovered around 64kg gold ... ,” he added.

The market price of the 640 gold bars is estimated to be around Tk 32 crore, said Assistant Commissioner of Customs Sulaiman Hossain.

He said one of the four crates arrived from Singapore on Friday while the rest three arrived yesterday.

The crates were brought in on Biman flights.

National Board of Revenue Chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan during a press conference at the airport last night said it was a matter of concern that Bangladesh was being used as a route for smuggling gold.

“We are recovering gold on secret information. But we cannot say that the gold is not being smuggled in other ways without our knowledge,” he said.