The airport customs authorities seized 280 gold bars weighing 33 kilograms from a return flight from Dubai at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Tuesday.
The airport customs assistant commissioner, Kamrul Hasan, told New Age that the gold bars were found abandoned in a toilet of Fly Dubai which arrived at the airport at about 10:45am.
On secrete information, customs authorities conducted the raid and sized the gold but none was arrested in this connection, he added.
The customs officials said the seized gold would be worth about Tk 14 crore in Bangladeshi market.
They said the carrier might have left the craft in guise of passengers leaving the gold.
A departmental case was in process to be filed and the gold would be sent to Bangladesh Bank vault, said the customs officials.
The smuggling of gold have increased alarmingly in recent times as previously 104 gold bars weighing 11 kg were seized at Hazrat Shahjalal Airport on September 24.
The customs officials also recovered 15 kg gold worth about Tk 8 crore from the airport on August 30 and a man was arrested with 1.2 kilograms of gold at the same place on August 3.
Earlier, on July 24, the customs authorities seized 124 kg gold worth about Tk 54 crore from an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
-With New Age input
