20 kg gold seized at HSIA: 4 held

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Staff Reporter :
Customs officials seized 20 kilograms of gold bars worth about Tk 9 crore and arrested four persons, including a civil aviation staff and two women in the city’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday night.
The arrested have been identified as Shahnaz Hossain (44), her daughter Anjila Hossain (26), Anjila’s husband Nabil Ibne
Ekram(28), and civil aviation staff Mobarak Hossain Mollah (35).
Mostafizur Rahman, Deputy Director of Customs Department said that the arrested passengers arrived in Dhaka on a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore around 11:25pm.
On their suspicious movement, customs officials searched them and found the gold bars in their bodies, he said.
The customs officials also arrested Mobarak for trying to help the passengers escape
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