18.5 kg gold bars found in a plane’s toilet after landing at Dhaka airport

Customs authorities at Shahjalal International Airport have seized around 18.5 kilograms of gold bars from a toilet in a Regent Airways aircraft.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 3 March 2015, 07:19 PM
Updated : 3 March 2015, 07:19 PM

The gold bars were found around 11pm Tuesday after the plane came from Singapore, said Customs department’s Joint Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Ziauddin.

He told bdnews24.com that a tip-off had led to the raid.

The gold bars seized were worth approximately Tk 95 million, he said, adding that they were trying to find the smugglers.