2 held with stolen luggage at airport
Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) yesterday arrested two members of a gang which carries out organised theft of passengers' luggage at Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.
Police also recovered three pieces of stolen luggage from the two arrestees -- Shah Alam, 37, and Md Abdul Hannan alias Mannan, 40.
Quoting the arrestees, police said Shah Alam, using passport of one Nazrul Islam, entered the area where luggage is collected. He then used a security-check pass from the lost and found department to go near conveyor belt no. 3, where passengers of Turkish Airways were collecting their luggage.
Shah Alam collected three pieces of luggage and left the airport, they added.
On information, AAPBn personnel followed him and made the arrest in Airport Golchattar, where Shah Alam was handing over the luggage to Hannan.
Both arrestees admitted that they take the stolen bags to a residential hotel in the capital where members of the gang meet with their “collectionsâ€, said police.
Shah Alam is brother-in-law of the gang's leader Zoynal Abedin. Zoynal was arrested with stolen luggage in January last year and is currently in jail.
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