6kg gold found under plane seat at Dhaka airport

Customs officials yesterday found 60 small gold bars, worth Tk 3 crore and weighing 6kg, from underneath the seat of a plane of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The gold bars were found inside six iron pipes that were installed underneath the seat of the plane that came from Doha and landed at the airport around 1:15pm, said customs officials.

The officials were suspecting the involvement of four Biman staffs with the smuggling, they added.