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Gold carrier placed on 3-day remand over gold smuggling
DHAKA, April 27, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today placed one Erfanul
Islam, 42, arrested on April 26 from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
with 10 gold bars, on three-day remand.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Abu Sufian Md Noman passed the order as
police produced Erfan before the court and pleaded for 10-day remand.
Airport Armed Police Battalion members arrested Erfan from car parking
area of domestic terminal at the airport as he tried to fled the scene after
landing here from Sylhet.
In the primary interrogation, he confessed carrying gold bars in his
rectum and police later managed to retreat those bars. Weighing 1.160 kg, the
estimated cost of the seized gold bars is Taka 45 lakh.
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