The passenger, a Shafi Alam, had concealed the bars inside the charger light, the torch and the flatiron he was carrying in his luggage and were discovered during scan, confirmed Md Neamul Hasan, deputy commissioner of Chittagong customs authorities.
The market value of the gold bars is Tk 25 million, he said.
Shafi was a passenger on Bangladesh Biman’s flight BG-136, which was coming from the kingdom’s Jeddah.
