Customs seizes gold bars worth Tk 2.0m from Biman flight
Saturday, 31 March 2018
Customs officers have seized 4.5kg of gold from an airplane at Sylhet Osmani International Airport.
The gold was seized from a Biman Bangladesh Flight BG-248 on Saturday, said Fazlur Rahman, a port customs officer.
The flight arrived at the Sylhet airport from Nepal around 12pm, he said.
“The customs searched the plane and found 40 gold bars wrapped in tape under a seat.”
The market value of the seized gold is nearly Tk 2.0 million, Rahman said. No arrests have been made over the incident, reports bdnews24.com