Around 55.51kg of gold have been stolen from the vault of the customs transit warehouse at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, officials said.
An FIR was lodged with the Airport police station around 11:45pm on Sunday by Mohammad Sohrab Hossain, assistant customs officer of the preventive team of Dhaka Customs.
According to the FIR, during patrolling on a regular basis, an airport official noticed the lock of a particular vault was broken, and immediately notified his senior officials around 9pm on Saturday.
On information, the joint commissioner along with other customs officials visited the spot and identified that a part of the tin-made vault was cut with a sharp object.
The officials later identified that around 55.51kg of gold seized in drives conducted from 2020 to 2023 were missing from the vault.
Confirming the matter, Airport police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Azizul Haque Miah said, "A case has been filed in this regard and the police are currently interrogating a number of people, and investigating CCTV footage of the area."
