3 cleaners held with 2.3kgs gold at Dhaka airport
Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) this morning detained three cleaners of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka with 20 gold bars weighing 2.32 kilogrammes.
The detainees are Md Sumon Shikdar, 34, Md Shahin Hosen, 27, and Md Belal Akand, 28, said Md Alamgir Hosen, additional superintendent of police (Ops and Media) of AAPBn.
According to the AAPBn official, the trio went to clean an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh that reached Dhaka airport around 10:25am from Abu Dhabi via Chattogram.
After they got off the plane around 11:20am, the members of AAPBn wanted to conduct a search on them but they resisted.
At one stage, the officials searched them and recovered the gold bars worth Tk 1.16 crore hidden inside Sumon’s shoes. Later, the team detained the three cleaners.
During primary interrogation, Sumon said a technician named Kalam handed him the gold bars inside the plane. He was offered Tk 20,000 for carrying the gold, the AAPBn official said quoting Sumon.
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