Dhaka airport staff held with 4kg gold

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained a man with 32 gold bars, weighing 4 kg from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday, reports news agency UNB.

The detained is Janathon Mukti Barikdar, 34, a cleaner at the airport and a resident of Khulna district.

Alamgir Hossain, additional superintendent of APBn, said a flight of ‘Emirates Airlines EK-582’ landed at the airport around 7:55am from Dubai and Jonathon went to clean the plane after landing.

A team of APBn found the gold bars worth Tk 18.5 million hidden in the sole of his shoes.

A case was filed in this connection.