July 4, 2024
DHAKA – Customs Intelligence officials recovered 38 gold bars weighing over 4.4 kilogrammes from a plane at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday morning.
The bars, wrapped in sticky tape in two packets, were left abandoned in the hand baggage storage compartment above the seats, said a press release signed by Pradeep Kumar Sarker, assistant commissioner of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department (CIID).
The officials recovered the bars around 5:30am after an aircraft of Salam Air landed at the airport, it added.
However, no one was arrested in this connection. The value of the gold is around Tk 4.5 crore.
CIID officials said smugglers sometimes leave gold in this manner to avoid arrest. Many with security passes work as their agents and take the gold out of the airport.