Customs officials at Zia International Airport (ZIA) seized medicines worth Tk 1.20 crore in the early hours of yesterday.
Police said they seized a total of four bags containing 23 types of medicines when those were moving on the conveyer belt at around 5:30am.
The name of one Abul was inscribed on all the bags as tags, they added.
“As the bags were moving, customs officials searched for its owners. Finding nobody, they scanned the luggage and found the medicine,” said the duty officer of Airport Police Station.
The luggage was brought in a Gulf Airways flight which landed at the airport from Dubai at 4:35am.
Airport sources said the medicines might have loaded from Karachi in Pakistan.
Customs Inspector SM Yunus Akbar filed a case with the Airport Police Station, accusing Abul.