15kg gold seized at Chattogram airport
Customs officials have recovered 130 gold bars, weighing more than 15 kg, from a passenger hidden inside a charger light at the Shah Amanat International Airport, Chattogram today.
The passenger, named Jaynal Abedin, was travelling from Sharjah, United Arab Emirate to Chattogram in a flight of Air Arabia.
"The Air Arabia flight arrived from Sharjah at 9 am. We searched the baggage of the passenger and found the gold bars inside a charger light. The market value of the seized gold is approximately Tk6 crore," said Riadul Islam, deputy commissioner of Airport and Airfreight department of Chattogram Customs.
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We are preparing legal steps against the passenger according to customs law, he added.
