2 held for trying to smuggle $230,000 out of country

Customs officials detained two persons, including a Turkish citizen, while they were trying to smuggle out $230,000 at Dhaka airport on Wednesday night.

The detainees are Mahmuda Feroz, an US-bound Bangladeshi national, and Mehmet Remzi, a Turkish citizen going to his country, said Harun or Rashid, assistant revenue officer of Customs.

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The customs officials, with the help of airport security officials, first detained Mahmuda from boarding gate area around 6:30pm as she was trying to board an Emirates flight. They recovered $30,500 from her.

Three hours later, officials detained Mehmet as he was trying to board an Istanbul-bound flight of Turkish Airlines around 9:30pm. They recovered USD 200,000 from his possession.