One held with 35 gold bars at Shahjalal
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Customs officials arrested a young man and recovered 35 pieces of gold bars weighing four kilograms at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka city on Sunday. The arrestee was identified as Faisal Hasan,30, a resident of Chittagong district. Joint Commissioner (Customs) S M Shohel Rahman said Faisal landed at the airport from a flight of Emirates Airlines, ‘EK582’, from Dubai around 8:00 am. On secret information, customs officials challenged him while he was crossing the green channel of the airport at about 9:00am. Later, the officials recovered the gold bars kept in Faisal’s shoe sole covered by surgical tape and arrested him. The market value of the gold is Tk 20 million, according to a news agency.
--Shuvo--