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Monday 7 January 2013

Around 7 Kg gold seized: arrested 3

Around 7 Kg gold bars has been seized at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this morning by Airport Police. Police also arrested 3 persons in connection to this incident from the multi-storied parking at the airport. The arrested persons are Md. Kabir Ahmed (35) who is a Civil Aviation Authority security employee, Md. Morshed Alam (27) and Belal Ahmed (25), the driver of Belal Ahmed.
At about 10 am, a passenger known to be one Md. Abdus Satter (as described by the arrestee Kabir) arrived at the airport by a Gulf Air flight GF250 from Manama. He then entered the washroom of the adjacent boarding bridge and handed over the gold bars to Kabir Ahmed, who was engaged in duty in that area. Sources said being tipped off, plain clothed police from Airport Armed Police followed Kabir when he left his working place and marched towards multi-storied parking of the airport through gate no 6 which is basically used for airport staffs. Kabir was caught red handed by the Airport Police when he was trying to hand over the gold bars to its owner Morshed Alam. At that time, both of them tried to escape but the airport police caught them after a short chase. Later 4 bars of gold was recovered from the blazer worn by Kabir Ahmed.
In presence of all concerned authorities of the airport, the bars wrapped in scotch tape were opened and 60 biscuits of gold were found each weighing 10 tolas. The price of the seized gold assumed to be around 3.75 crore BDT.
In primary interrogation, the arrested Morshed Alam told police that he is the main shareholder of this consignment and Kabir was supposed to be given 30,000 BDT for his job. He also admitted that he was involved in 6-7 such smuggling case previously, sources said.
Later, a lawsuit was lodged at the local police station in this regard.

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