Banned medicines at airport

Customs intelligence has seized a large quantity of medicine under import ban from two bags at the Shahjalal International Airport.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 9 July 2014, 06:15 PM
Updated : 9 July 2014, 06:15 PM

The bags were on an Etihad Airways flight that arrived in Dhaka at 8:30pm Wednesday, Customs Intelligence Deputy Director Mostafizur Rahman said.

The bags had no claimants, and when customs looked through them they were found to be filled with medicine that is illegal to import.

Rahman said the drugs were worth around Tk 25 million.

The bags had a name on them but no other identification, he said. He added that the matter was being investigated.