Man detained with 15kg of gold at Ctg airport

Customs officials have confiscated gold weighing 15 kilograms from a passenger at Chattogram's Shah Amanat Airport.

Chattogram Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 18 Oct 2019, 08:48 AM
Updated : 18 Oct 2019, 08:48 AM

Joynal Abedin, who arrived in the port city from Sharjah by an Air Arabia flight at 9am on Friday, was subsequently detained, according to Airport Customs Deputy-Commissioner Riadul Islam.

"The authorities checked Joynal's luggage out of suspicion and found 130 gold bars stashed inside a flashlight," said Riadul.

The estimated market value of the seized gold is around Tk 65 million, he added.