Gold Smuggling in Bangladesh
Take stern action against gold smugglers
Innovative methods being used to smuggle gold deserve appropriate response from officials
Gold smugglers game the system
International smugglers are bringing gold bars into Bangladesh through legal means and then smuggling those to India.
‘Female smuggler’ held with 57 gold bars in Benapole
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a suspected female smuggler with 57 gold bars weighing 9.2 kilograms in Jashore’s Benapole last night.
Cleaner held with 32 gold bars at Dhaka airport
A cleaner has been detained at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka with 32 gold bars hidden inside his shoes.
Couple held with 30 gold bars in Dhaka
Customs intelligence officials arrest a couple with 30 gold bars, weighing around 3.5kg, from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.
2 Japanese citizens held with 12kgs gold at Dhaka airport
Customs officials detain two Japanese citizens along with 30 gold bars, weighing around 12 kilogrammes, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Nearly 6kgs gold seized from Dhaka, Chattogram airports
Almost six kilogrammes of gold were seized from Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport and Chattogram’s Shah Amanat International Airport.
23.4kg gold seized from Biman plane
The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate officials recovered some 200 gold bars weighing about 23.4kg from two toilets of a Bangladesh Biman Airlines aircraft at Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city yesterday.
23.4kg gold seized at Chattogram airport
Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) recover 200 gold bars weighing 23.4 kilogrammes from the toilets of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.
43 gold bars found from air passenger’s undergarments at Dhaka airport
All the gold bars were hidden in an ingenious way inside his undergarments until he is caught red-handed by customs intelligence officials at Dhaka airport.
Japanese held with 11kg gold at Dhaka airport
A Preventive Team of Dhaka Custom House arrests a Japanese national along with 11 kilogrammes of gold from a flight of Regent Airways at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.