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CONFESSION-SAIMA-SMUGGLING-GOLD
Saudi Airlines crew Saima confesses involvement in gold smuggling
DHAKA, March 25, 2019 (BSS) – Saudi Airlines cabin crew Saima Akhter has
confessed her involvement in gold smuggling as she gave statement under
section 164 before a court here yesterday.
Saima made the confessional statement before the court of Dhaka
Metropolitan Magistrate Atikul Islam and the court after that sent her to
jail.
“She was produced before the court after end of her two-day remand. She
then gave her confessional statement before the court,” a court official
said.
The court on March 21 today put Saima on two-day remand in two cases
lodged over gold smuggling.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Didar Hossain passed the order as
investigation officer Safikul Islam produced Saima and her colleague Farjana
Afroza before the court after their first round of remand and pleaded to put
Saima on seven days of fresh remand.
Allowing the plea in part, the court put Saima on two-day remand and
sent Farjana to jail.
Earlier on March 19, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Tofazzal Hossain put
Saima Akhter and Farjana Afroza on one-day remand each as police pleaded for
a total 10-day remand in two separate cases.
Customs members detained the duo on March 18 at Hazrat Shahjalal
International Airport as they reached here on Saudi Airlines flight SV-802.
Customs intelligence members recovered 26 gold bars from Saima and 10 from
Farjana.
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