Customs Department Joint Commissioner SM Sohel Rahman told bdnews24.com on Friday, “This is the first time anyone tried to pull this bizarre stunt.”
The 38-year old Rafiqul Islam returned from Dubai on Thursday. Officials stopped him while he was crossing the immigration following an instruction from Dhaka Customs House Commissioner Lutfor Rahman.
Rahman said the passenger of Flydubai airlines at one point of the grilling admitted that he had been carrying six gold bars.
“Police took him to Uttara Medical College Hospital where X-ray reports confirmed the presence of gold inside rectum.”
The doctors there suggested using glycerine suppositories to bring out the gold bars packed in plastic and black tape.
The instruction was duly followed.