Four held with 11kg gold at Sylhet airport

Bangladesh Customs has seized over 11kg of gold from four passengers when they arrived at Sylhet’s MAG Osmani International Airport.

The gold, hidden in a juicer and calendar, is worth about Tk 70 million, according to Md Al Amin, the deputy commissioner of Sylhet Customs.

The detainees have been identified as Sheikh Md Jahid of Habiganj, Mokbul Ali, Mofiz Uddin and Sultan Mahmud, all from Sylhet, reports UNB.

Customs officials seized the shipments, acting on a tip-off that the passengers would arrive on a Bangladesh Biman flight from Dubai on Monday.

After the flight landed at 9 am, the customs officials interrogated and searched the luggage of four passengers and found the gold. A gold smuggling case was filed against the detainees, Al Amin said.

Customs officials also arrested a passenger of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet after recovering 38 bars and one pipe-shaped piece of gold weighing 6.148 kilograms from his possession on November 08,202.