Gold in smuggler's rectum!
The art of smuggling gold has moved up another notch as a man was caught carrying six gold bars worth around Tk 34 lakh in his rectum yesterday.
Customs officials acting on a tip off at first failed to find anything frisking Kazi Rafiqul and scanning his luggage upon his arrival at the capital's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday night from Dubai.
After a night of interrogation failed to yield any result, an x-ray at an Uttara clinic brought the breakthrough, revealing the precious metals weighing 0.7 kilogrammes and wrapped in two cloths, which were retrieved using suppositories. SM Sohel Rahman, joint commissioner at Bangladesh Customs, told The Daily Star that the recovery was the first of its kind.
Hailing from Barisal's Agailjhara Rafiqul, Kazi was a carrier who went on frequent trips abroad, he said.
The airport does not have the equipment to detect contraband inside people's bodies, said a customs official.
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