3 held with 7.5kg gold at Shahjalal airport
Police arrested three people and seized around 7.5 kilogrammes of smuggled gold, shaped into 40 bars, from their possession at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday.
Of the arrestees, Kabir Ahmed, 35, is a guard of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab); Morshed Alam, 35, is a driver of the Caab; and Belal Ahmed, 36, is a smuggler, said an AAPBn official.
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Atiqur Rahman of Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) added that an AAPBn team, on a tip off, arrested the trio from the immigration parking area around 10:30am.
During preliminary interrogation at the AAPBn office, the trio confessed to their involvement with the gold smuggling, said the AAPBn official.
They also told police that one Abdus Sattar brought the gold from Bahrain. Disembarking from an Emirates flight around 10:00am, Sattar went to a toilet in the parking area, kept the gold, packed inside a bag, there and left the airport, the APBn official added.
Belal went to bring the gold bars from the toilet with Morshed while Kabir assisted them in the process, he said.
Police were looking for Sattar and his accomplices. They were also investigating whether any other Caab employee was involved with the smugglers.
A case was filed with Airport Police Station in this connection.
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