Man held with 1kg gold at Dhaka airport

Customs Intelligence (CI) yesterday arrested a person with gold bars, weighing over one kilogramme, inside his body at the capital's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Noticing suspicious movement, CI detectives interrogated Md Khurshed Hossain and made him admit that he was carrying eight gold bars in four packets pushed through his rectum in the toilet of the airplane half an hour before it landed in Dhaka, informed Moinul Khan, director general of customs intelligence.

Khurshed also admitted that he and his gold smuggling partner Imran Hossain lived in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Had the gold been successfully smuggled into the country, it would be sold in different markets in Chittagong, Khurshed told CI officials.