One held with gold at Dhaka airport
Saturday, 20 December 2014
Customs Intelligence officials seized 800 grammes of gold worth Tk 4.0 million (40 lakh) and detained a man at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Friday. The detainee was identified as M Rashed, hailing from Shariatpur. Sources at the airport said Rashed came to Bangladesh from Malaysia by a Malaysian Airlines flight around 12pm. Tipped off, customs officials challenged him at the green channel and recovered the gold from his waist belt. — UNB