Customs officials seize 10 gold bars at Sylhet airport

Customs officials seize 10 gold bars at Sylhet airport

Customs officials on Tuesday said that they had found 10 gold bars in a trash bag of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at MAG Osmani International Airport in Sylhet.

The gold bars weighing 1.16 kilograms are worth about Tk 1 crore, the officials said, adding that the flight landed at the airport around 8:00am on Tuesday from Qatar’s Doha, said Nazassi Parvez, a revenue officer at the airport.

‘The gold bars were recovered, following a tip off. But the person who brought them into the country from abroad could not be identified,’ he said.

A criminal case will be filed in this regard, said the official.