40 gold bars seized at Shahjalal airport

Customs officials in a drive seized 40 gold bars, weighing 4.64 kg, from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft ‘Ranga Probhat’ at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday.
News agency UNB adds, Othello Chowdhury, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Customs House (DCH), said that a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines of Abudhabi-Sylhet-Dhaka route landed at the airport in the morning.
Tipped off, a preventive team of customs entered the flight and recovered the gold bars worth Tk 23.2 million wrapped with black scotch tap under a seat in an abandoned condition.