Man held with foreign currency worth Tk 2.5cr at Dhaka airport

Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained a man with foreign currencies equivalent to Tk 2.5 crore at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday morning.

Jahangir Gazi (36) was detained when he was trying to board an Istanbul-bound Turkish Airlines flight around 6:30am, said Ziaul Haque, additional superintendent (media) of APBn.

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The man first denied having any foreign currency with him. But officials scanned him and found currencies of eight countries, including 11.65 lakh Saudi riyal, he said.

"The total currencies are equivalent to Tk 2.5 crore. He was trying to smuggle those out of the country," the official said.

Jahangir was a fabric trader. His passport shows that he has travelled abroad 130 times in the last two years.

The detainee will be handed over to Customs, and filing of a case against him under Money Laundering Prevention Act is underway.