Australian held at airport
Airport Armed Police arrested an Australian citizen from Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday on charge of illegally carrying currencies of different countries.
Police said they arrested Christopher Pitter Giri, 50, from the second boarding bridge around 12:15pm while he was on way to board a Bangkok bound flight of Thai Airways.
Mohammad Moinuddin, a sub inspector (SI) of Airport Police Station, said Giri was acting suspicious, prompting law enforcers to search his luggage where currencies worth around Tk 9,143,245 of eight countries including Bangladesh were found.
The SI said Giri was now in jail custody and police filed a case.
Giri claimed he was legally carrying the currencies.
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