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120 gold bars seized at Shahjalal

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Update: 2013-12-03 23:17:50
120 gold bars seized at Shahjalal

DHAKA: Custom officials seized 120 gold bars weighing around 14 kilograms from a flight of Regent Airways landed at Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday morning.

Assistant Commissioner of airport customs, Ferdous Arefin, told banglanews that acting on a tip off, a team of custom intelligence conducted search in the flight of Regent Airways coming from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recovered the huge gold bars.

The gold bars worth about TK 6 crore were found in the toilet of the flight, he added.

In another incident, a person was held with 10 gold bars by National Security of Intelligence (NSI) on Tuesday evening.
 
BDST: 1012 HRS, DEC 04, 2013

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