Rab seizes 7kg gold
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested four members of a gold smuggling gang and recovered 56 gold bars weighing 7kg in Kalyanpur area of Dhaka.
On information of gold smuggling to Satkhira from the city, a Rab team carried out a raid in the bus stand area around 4:00pm and made the arrest and seizure, said Saiful Malik, operations officer of Rab-2.
The arrestees are Liton Hossain, 30; Aminur, 23; Shah Alam, 32; Ayesha Begum, 40, all from Jashore. The bars hidden inside their bodies are worth around Tk 3 crore, Rab said.
The arrestees in primary interrogation told Rab that they were engaged in gold smuggling to the neighbouring country for a long time, the officials said.
They also said these four only carry gold across the border, but they were searching for the gang leader. Four mobile phones were also seized from their possession.
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