Airport customs officials have seized 18 gold bars weighing 2kg from an airplane at Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport.
Published : 29 Jan 2015, 01:47 PM
The airplane had come from Dubai.
Customs department’s Joint Commissioner Mohammad Zia Uddin said the gold bars, concealed in a packet, were found under a seat of Bangladesh Biman flight BG 084 around 11:30am on Thursday.
The value of the gold was estimated to be worth Tk 20 million, custom officials told reporters.