A Bangladeshi national was detained with 12 gold bars at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram Friday, Customs officials said. The arrestee has been identified as Md Mizan Uddin, a resident of Fatikchari upazila, said Farhad Hossain, managing wing commander of the airport. Also read: Youth held with 10 gold bars in Magura Mizan arrived from Sharjah around 7.30 am on an Air Arabia flight. "The gold bars, weighing 1.4kg and worth Tk one crore, were found in his baggage during checking," said the official. A case will be filed against the accused at Patenga police station in this regard, he said. Also read: Man held with 1.24 kg gold, lead at Chattogram Airport

Customs officials on Wednesday claimed to have seized more than 7, 200 cartons of foreign cigarettes during a drive at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram. Tipped off, a team of Customs officials seized the cartons from the green channel of the airport on Tuesday night, deputy commissioner of Chattogram Customs, Salauddin Rizvi, said. The market value of the seized cigarettes is Tk 1.10 crore, he said. "Process is on to take legal action. However, no one was arrested in this connection." Also read: Man detained with 11 gold bars at Sylhet airport  

Customs officials on Wednesday claimed to have detained a man with 34 gold bars at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram. The detainee has been identified as Saiful Islam of Lohagara upazila in Chattogram. Wing Commander Farhad Hossain, director of the airport, said an Air Arabia Airlines flight from Dubai landed at the airport around 7.30am. Tipped off, a team of Customs intelligence sleuths frisked Saidul on board the aircraft and seized the gold bars. Also Read: Gold bars worth Tk 40 lakh seized at Chattogram airport “A process is on to take legal steps against the detainee,” said deputy commissioner of Customs Intelligence, AKM Sultan Mahmud.

Customs officials detained a man along with 28 gold bars, weighing 3 kg, from Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport on Sunday, officials said. Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Customs, Niamul Hasan said a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines BG-136 from Jeddah landed at the airport in the morning. Also read: Man detained with 11 gold bars at Sylhet airport During scanning, the customs officials suspected existence of metal objects in the luggage of a passenger , whose name could not be known immediately, and challenged him. Later, they seized the gold bars from his luggage.

Customs officials on Thursday detained man along with 10 gold bars at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport. The detainee was Sazzad Hossain, a passenger of BG-4136 flight that landed at the airport from Jeddah. Also read: Man detained with gold bars & foreign fags at Ctg airport The gold bars were detected while scanning the luggage of Sazzad, said Md Salauddin Rizvi, Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Airport Customs. The bars were hidden wrapped in scotch tape in lithium battery carbon inside a toy car, he said. Legal action will be taken against the detainee, he said. Also read: CAAB cleaning staff held with 41.76 kg gold bars at Dhaka airport

A Bangladeshi national has been detained with seven gold bars and 1,000 cigarettes worth TK 52 lakh at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport, Customs officials said on Tuesday. The detainee has been identified as Mohammad Arman Uddin, a UAE returnee. Arman's flight from the UAE landed at the Chattogram airport on Monday night. Also read: BGB nabs smuggler with 7 gold bars in Rajshahi "As he was passing through the green channel, Customs officials on duty became suspicious and frisked him only to seize the gold bars and the foreign fags," said AKM Sultan Mahmud, deputy director of Customs intelligence and investigation department. A case will be filed in this regard and the detainee will be handed over to the police for further action, said Mahmud. Also read: 2 held with gold bars worth Tk 2.5 cr at Benapole

Customs officials arrested a man along with 'huge foreign currencies equivalent to TK 42 lakh' at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Tuesday night.

Customs officials seized 20 gold bars, weighing 18 kgs, from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Thursday.

Customs intelligence officials arrested a passenger of a flight along with 82 gold bars from Shah Amanat International Airport on Thursday.

State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mohammad Mahbub Ali said on Sunday that the construction of the third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport will finish on time.