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SEIZURE-GOLD-AIRPORT
Foreign national held with 48 gold bars at HSIA
DHAKA, March 24, 2019 (BSS) – Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate today seized 48 gold bars, worth about Taka 7.96 crore, from a foreign national at the Green Channel of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) here.
“A Chinese citizen identified as Buyan Jinfeng, 43, was arrested for carrying unauthorized 48 gold bars today,” Othelo Chowdhury, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Customs, told BSS.
He added: “During the preliminary investigation, he confessed his involvement in bringing gold bars.”
The detainee landed here form Dubai by an aircraft (flight no EK-582) of Emirates Airlines around 8 am.
Two cases were filed under the Customs Act, 1969 and Special Power Act, 1974 in this connection.
The Chinese national was sent to Bimanbandar police Station.
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