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.