2 held with 26 gold bars at Dhaka airport
Customs officials today recovered 26 gold bars worth around Tk 1.3 crore and detained two persons in this connection from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Mamun Hossain, 31, of Munshiganj and Moslem Uddin, 31, of Chittagong were detained on charge of illegally carrying the gold bars, said HM Ahsanul Kabir, assistant commissioner of customs.
Customs officials recovered 18 gold bars from Mamun, who flew into Dhaka from Malaysia around 12:30am. The bars, weighing 1.8kg and worth around Tk 90 lakh, were hidden inside a charger light.
Moslem, who flew in from Muscat, was frisked before eight gold bars were seized from him. The bars, weighing around 0.9kg and worth around Tk 46 lakh, were concealed inside his rectum.
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