Malaysian woman with six gold bars held at Dhaka Airport - Report
The 53-year-old woman was detained when she was going through the green channel at about noon, Tuesday. - Filepic
A Malaysian woman with six gold bars has been detained by enforcement officers at the Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Bangladesh, according to a report.
Bangladesh bdnews24.com reported that the 53-year-old woman was detained when she was going through the green channel at about noon on Tuesday.
According to the report, she was frisked after she attracted suspicion by the way she walked and the search revealed six gold bars, each bar weighing 1kg, on her.
The report quoted Armed Police Battalion’s Asst Supt Nur-e Alam Siddique as saying that the woman came to Bangladesh on a Malaysia Airlines flight at about 11am.
"She never came to Bangladesh before, according to the travel details on her passport. She was also not fluent in English, so we could not ascertain yet her destination in Bangladesh," he had said.
Legal action was being taken against her, the online newspaper quoted Customs Asst Commissioner Jewela Khanam as saying.
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