96 gold bars seized at Ctg airport, 1 held

Customs officials today seized 96 gold bars, weighing around 11.2 kilogrammes, from a luggage at the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.

A man named Didarul Islam, hailing from Raozan upazila in Chattogram, was detained in this connection, our Chattogram staff correspondent reports quoting Nur Uddin Milon, deputy commissioner of the local Customs House.

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The gold worth around Tk 5 crore was recovered from a luggage during scanning.

The luggage came on a Biman Bangladesh flight from Muscat which landed in Chattogram at 10:00am, said Nur Uddin.