7kg gold seized at Shahjalal Airport

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka Custom House team seized 60 gold bars, weighing around 7kgs, from a toilet of a flight of Regent Airways at Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.

The Dhaka Custom House team seized the gold bars on Tuesday morning.

Confirming the matter to risingbd.com, SM Sohel Rahman, joint commissioner of Custom House, said on secret information, the preventive team raided the flight 'RX 724' that came from Muscat and recovered the gold bars around 9:30am.

No one was arrested in this connection, he said.

risingbd/DHAKA/Jan 24, 2017/MA Rahman/Amirul