Gold worth Tk 4.1m seized at Shah Amanat

Custom officials seized eight gold bars weighing 933 gm and worth about Tk 4.1 million from a passenger of Air Arabia Airlines at Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport in Chittagong city on Friday morning. The passenger was identified as M Osman, 46. He hails from Madanhat area of Hathazari Upazila of Chittagong district. He arrived in the port city from Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates by an Air Arabia flight that landed at the airport around 9:30 am. Mashiur Rahman Mandal, senior assistant commissioner of airport customs authority, said while checking, they found the gold bars in a flask kept inside the luggage of Osman, according to UNB.