4kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

Custom officials detained a man with 36 gold bars weighing 4 kilogramme at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of custom’s preventive team detained Faisal Hasan, a passenger of Emirates flight EK 582 from Abu Dhabi, soon after the flight landed at the airport around 9:00am, said Shahiduzzam Sarkar, assistant commissioner of customs.

They searched him and found 32 pieces of gold bar, Sarkar said.

The market price of the gold is approximately Tk 2 crore, he added.