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Update: 2018-09-19 13:56:42
40 gold bars seized at Sylhet airport

SYLHET:  The customs authorities detained a man with forty gold bars, weighing 4 kg 640 grams, from Osmani International Airport in the district on Wednesday (September 19).

Gold bars were found in the rear seat of a passenger, Jahid, coming from Dubai as the flight landed at the airport at 7:15 am, said Md Ahsan Ullah, custom official of the airport.

The seized gold will be handed over to Bangladesh Bank’s Sylhet branch. A case has been filed with SMP’s airport police station under customs act 1069. The market price of seized gold is worth about Tk 2 crore, he added.

BDST: 1355 HRS, SEP 19, 2018

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