Man held with 15-kg gold at HSIA
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DHAKA, Dec 16, 2020 (BSS) – Preventive team of Dhaka Customs House seized 130 gold bars, weighing 15 kgs, worth around Taka 1.5 crore and arrested a man in this connection at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday.
The arrested was identified as Lutfar Rahman Munshi, 53, of Mymensingh district, deputy commissioner (Preventive Team) of Dhaka Customs House Mohammad Marufur Rahman today confirmed the matter to BSS.
He said an Emirates Airlines flight (EK- 584) from Dubai landed at Dhaka Shahjalal Airport around 11pm.
The officers of the Preventive Smuggling Prevention Team of Dhaka Custom House, being informed, took position at different points of the airport and started keeping a close watch.
Passenger held with 130 gold bars at HSIA
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Customs officials arrested a passenger with 130 gold bars weighing 15kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Tuesday night.
Arrestee Lutfar Rahman Munshi, a resident of Mymensingh, returned home from Dubai.
Customs sources said the seized gold was worth Tk 10.50 crore.
Marufur Rahman, deputy commissioner of the Customs Preventive Team, said they had received intelligence that a passenger would return home from Dubai on flight EK-564 with a huge quantity of gold.
Accordingly, members of the customs (preventive) team took position at different places of the airport. At one stage, they arrested Lutfar and seized the gold bars.