2 foreigner held with gold bars at Dhaka airport

Economic Correspondent: A Preventive team of Dhaka Custom House detained two foreign nationals with 5.56 kilogrammes of gold worth around Tk 2.79 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Dhaka Customs House Deputy Commissioner Othello Chowdhury confirmed the matter to risingbd.com.

Customs House sources said that acting on secret information, the customs officials halted and questioned the two Chinese nationals who arrived on a flight from Sarjah by a flight of Air Arabia (G 9517) while they were passing the green channel of the airport.

Later, the officials found presence of metallic objects in their luggage. Meanwhile, the law enforcers recovered 24 bars of gold from each of the batteries of “the solar home systems”.


risingbd/Dhaka/March 13, 2019/M A Rahman/Nasim