DHAKA, Jan 12, 2022 (BSS) - A court here today sentenced four people 
including two staff of national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines to 12-
year imprisonment each in a case lodged over recovery of more than nine 
kilograms of gold from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

     The four convicts are- Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC) pantry men 
Khandaker Ruhul Amin, Shahinur Islam and gold smuggling gang members Iftarul 
Alam Sarker and Riaj alias Amjad.

     Dhaka Special Tribunal-3 Judge Bilkis Akter pronounced the judgment this 
noon, also fined the convicts Taka 40 thousand, to suffer six-month more 
behind bars in default.

     Of the four convicts, Ruhul Amin and Shahinur Islam were in jail and 
were produced before the court for the judgement, while the remaining two 
were on bail and appeared at the court. 

     After the judgment, the tribunal sent the four to jail with conviction 
warrant. 

     Members of Dhaka Customs House recovered 9.280 kilograms of gold bars 
from a toilet at the airport on March 15, 2018, and detained Ruhul Amin and 
Shahinur Islam for their role in this connection. 

     According to the case documents, members of the gold smuggling gang put 
the gold bars inside a tissue box in the toilet of flight BG-236 from Jeddah 
to Dhaka. The two Biman men took the gold bars from the flight and took those 
away by hiding inside their clothes. Later they hide those inside the food 
trolleys, only to hand those over to gold smuggling gang members.

     CID filed a charge-sheet against four on July 8, 2019, and the tribunal 
on December 13, 2020, framed charges against them. 

     The tribunal today came up with the judgment after examining 10 out of 
total 14 witnesses on different hearing dates.