6.7kg gold seized at Dhaka airport
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Published: 12:19, 20 November 2017
Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Staff Correspondent: Customs intelligence officials seized 58 gold bars weighing 6.7 kilograms and detained a man in this connection at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
The detainee is identified as Alam, a construction worker from Comilla district.
Dhaka customs authority confirmed the matter to risingbd.com.
Sources said that Alam came from Bahrain this morning. Meanwhile, acting on a tip-off, the law enforcers stopped him when he was crossing green-channel and found the gold bars scanning his baggage.
The current market price of the seized gold is Tk 3.35 crore.
risingbd/Dhaka/Nov 20, 2017/M A Rahman/Nasim
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