One held with 24 gold bars at Shahjalal Airport

Dhaka – Customs officials on Saturday detained a passenger of a domestic flight from Chittagong at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here and seized 24 gold bars weighing 2.78
kilograms from his possession.Sources at the Dhaka customs house said Sarwar Kamal of Cox’s Bazar boarded a Dhaka bound flight of Regent Airways from Chittagong Shah
Amanat International airport on Saturday morning,UNB news agency reported.The flight landed at Hazrat Shajalal International airport at around 8:00 am.A customs preventive team challenged Sarwar when he was about to leave the domestic terminal of the airport and recovered the gold after searching his shoes, said Joint Commissioner of Dhaka customs house Sohel Rahman.A case was filed with Airport police station in this regard.