Gold worth 4.5 crore taka found in a car in the Shahjalal Airport area, driver absconding.

Sayed Boshir Ahmmed, Staff Reporter. The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department has recovered 1,812 grams of gold worth about 3.73 crore taka from a car in the roundabout area outside Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. At that time, the driver of the car abandoned the car and fled. According to Customs Intelligence sources, based on a secret tip-off, a suspicious car was stopped for search in the roundabout area outside the airport. At that time, the driver of the car, Md. Shamim Mia, abandoned the car and fled. Later, officers and employees of the Air Freight Circle of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department, with the help of various intelligence agencies present at the scene, searched the car. At that time, 14 gold bars and 12 gold sheets were recovered. Later, the vehicle was searched in more detail and various items including three mobile phones, 1 lakh 7 thousand 585 taka in cash, a used laptop, eight debit and credit cards of different banks, two driving licenses and a national identity card were recovered. The total weight of the recovered gold is 1 thousand 812 grams or 155.35 bhari. It has been confirmed that it is 24-carat gold after testing it with the gold testing machine of the Customs House Dhaka. The estimated market value of which is 3 crore 72 lakh 72 thousand 892 taka. The inventory of the recovered goods and other items has been completed at the Customs Hall by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department. The process of filing a case against the person concerned in this incident at the Airport Police Station is underway.