12kg gold bars worth 8C seized at Dhaka airport

The bars were found in three packets hidden in a plane’s cargo hold

Customs officials on Monday seized 104 gold bars worth some Tk8.44 crore from an aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

According to a press release of the Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation, a team of customs officials, tipped off, searched the cargo hold of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Dubai around 9:15am.

Later, the officials found the 104 gold bars weighing 12 kg in three packets hidden in the cargo hold of the aircraft.

The gold bars were being smuggled to avoid duty fees.

However, no one was identified, according to customs intelligence sources.

Procedure was underway to start a case in this regard, said the release.