Customs Intelligence officials detained two employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with 40 gold bars, worth Tk 2.03 crore, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka today.

Detainees -- Jafar Iqbal and Joydeb Das -- identified themselves as cleaners of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Moinul Khan, director general of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID), told The Daily Star.

Tipped off, a team of Customs Intelligence detained Jafar and Joydeb while they were carrying the gold bars, weighing 4.6 kilogrammes, inside their bodies after they cleaned a flight of Qatar Airways around 6:30pm, said Moinul Khan.