68 gold bars seized at Dhaka airport

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DHAKA, Nov 6, 2020 (BSS) – A team of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) seized 68 gold bars, weighing around 7.888 kg, from an aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Friday.

The bars were hidden below a tissue paper’s box inside the toilet of a Biman Bangladesh flight that landed at the airport around 8:45 am from Dubai, Muhammad Mubinul Kabir, director general of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate, told BSS.

The market price of the seized gold is over Tk 4.73 crore.