Biman staff held with 68 gold bars at HSIA
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) has detained an employee of Biman Bangladesh Airlines along with 68 gold bars weighing around 8 kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), reports UNB.
The detainee is Shafiqul Islam (33), a resident of Khulna's Daulatpur thana.
He joined Biman Bangladesh Airlines as a casual staff in 2013 and became a permanent employee in 2017.
Additional SP of Airport Armed Police (AAP) Mohammad Ziaul Haque said they detained Shafiqul Islam with the gold bars stashed around his waist around 10 pm on Sunday.
A Boeing 777 flight arrived at Dhaka airport at 7:30 pm from Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur.
When all the staff in charge of cleaning and maintenance left the aircraft, Shafiqul went inside it at 10:00 pm and his movement appeared suspicious to a team of APBn agents, ASP Ziaul said.
APBn found the gold bars after searching him in the presence of other law enforcers, the ASP said.
"During interrogation, he didn't give any clear answer about the source and the destination of the gold bars," he added.