Customs officials have seized significant amount of gold in recent months. Gold is seized at Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet international airport.
On 19th September a man was arrested with ten gold bars at Shahjalal International Airport by Armed Police Battalion. On sixth day of that, another man named Masud Rana is arrested at the same airport. He was carrying one hundred and four gold bars weighing twelve kilograms in his shoe and pant. Officials say they searched the man on information from anonymous source and price of the seized gold would be about five crore taka. That man reached Dhaka from Dubai by a flight of Emirates.
