14kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

Customs officials seized 120 gold bars, weighing around 14 kilogrammes, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

Syed Mukaddes, deputy commissioner (Preventive) of Customs House said the gold, worth around Tk 13.5 crore, was hidden inside a bus used for carrying passengers to and from the terminal to aircrafts. He said, receiving a tip-off, customs officials carried out the raid.

Facing interrogation, the bus driver, Harunur Rashid revealed the location of the gold bars taped inside the bus, he told The Daily Star. The bus driver has been detained. Harun was suspected to be a member of a gold smuggling racket and he was trying to take the gold out of the airport, he added.