Customs officials detained a passenger of a Singapore-bound flight with 80,000 Saudi Arabia Riyals at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Saturday.
The detainee is Md Asaduzzaman Nur, who was scheduled to fly to Singapore at 8:30am.
Tipped off, the customs officials detained him with the Saudi Riyals amounting to Tk 23 lakh while he was about to get a boarding pass around 5:40am. A case was filed in this connection.