Customs Intelligence on Monday seized 200 gold bars, weighting about 17.4 kilograms, from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city.
Roksana Akhtar, deputy commissioner of Chittagong Custom House, confirmed the matter to Banglanews.
She said, acting on a tip-off, a team of Customs Intelligence and National Security Intelligence (NSI) conducted a joint operation and recovered the gold bars from the back panel of BG-128 flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines which came from Abu Dhabi this morning.
BDST: 1345 HRS, FEB 22, 2021
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