Gold bars worth Tk 46.8cr recovered at Dhaka airport
Gold bars worth Tk 46.8cr recovered at Dhaka airport
Customs intelligence officials recovered at least 936 gold bars worth about Tk 46.80 crore from a Biman flight that landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital this morning.
Acting on a tip-off, the customs officials interrogated a civil aviation officer and later recovered the smuggled gold, Mostafizur Rahman, deputy director of Customs Intelligence told The Daily Star.
Earlier, the customs officials obtained a piece of information that the smuggled gold would be cleared by a civil aviation official named Anis.
The gold bars weighing 106 kilogrammes were recovered around 2:30pm from a toilet of the flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines no-058.
The aircraft from Dubai landed at the airport at 8:00am, the official said.
The gold bars were found in 14 packets which were wrapped with black and blue clothes, Rahman said.