Members of Border Guard Bangladesh seized 43 gold bars weighing a combined 5kg from the Agravulot border of Jashore's Sharsha upazila on Friday.
Lt Col Tanveer Ahmed, commanding officer of BGB-21 battalion, said tipped off, a team of BGB conducted a drive in the area around 9pm, acting on a tip-off that gold was being smuggled to India.
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, smugglers fled the scene leaving behind a bag and the BGB team recovered the gold bars worth Tk 3.5 crore from the bag, said Tanveer Ahmed.
