Three held with Tk 80m liquid gold at Dhaka airport

Airport Armed Police on Tuesday detained three men at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and seized around 14kg of liquid gold worth Tk 80 million (Tk 8 crore) from their possession, UNB reports.

The three have been identified as Md Riazul Hasan, 46, Mohammad Amin, 35, and Mokaram Khan, 33.

Md Ziaul Haque, additional superintendent of AAP, a specialised police unit in charge of airport security, told the news agency that the three were held on a tip-off.

"Acting on the tip off, we intercepted the three after they got off from a Turkish Airlines flight that landed at the airport from Dubai via Istanbul around 4.30am," he said.

"The gold were liquified by a special process and kept in paste form," the additional SP added.