Three 'smugglers' arrested with 29 kg gold from Benapole border

BENAPOLE, Aug 30 (UNB): Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three suspected smugglers along with 4 gold bars weighing 2.9 kg from Daulatpur border of Benapole in Jessore district on Wednesday morning,
The arrestees were Saidur Rahman Majed, 33, son of Mohiuddin of Pirojpur village of Jhenaidah district, Saiful Islam, 36, son of Nasir Ali of Bagdanga village in Jessore Sadar upazila, and Masud Chowdhury Babu, 31, son of Rezaul Chowdhury of Nischintapur village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore.
A special BGB patrol team arrested the three suspects from a private car around 11 am, said Lt Col Tanvir Rahman, commander of Khulna-21 BGB battalion.
Later, the gold bars worth Tk 26.5 million (2.65 crore) were seized searching their bodies.
With this, 21 BGB Battalion seized 112 kg of gold worth Tk one billion (100 crore) in the last one year. A case will be filed with Benapole Port Police Station and the gold will be deposited to the treasury branch of Jessore, the BGB official said.