Woman held with 5 gold bars at Shahjalal
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Customs intelligence officials detained a young woman along with five gold bars weighting 988 grams from Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday. Sources at the airport said customs officials challenged Maria Akhter Lily, 24, for her suspicious movement when she was leaving the green channel of the customs area of the airport at about 9:00am. Searching her body, they found the five gold bars worth about Tk 3.2 million. She arrived at the airport from Malaysia by a flight of Malaysian Airlines in the morning, according to UNB.