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Bangladesh customs seizes 325 gold bars weighing 38 kg

Xinhua, May 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Customs officials in Bangladesh's second largest airport in the seaport city Chittagong Tuesday morning seized 325 gold bars weighing 38 kilograms, an official said.

The Customs Intelligence Department official who preferred to be unnamed told Xinhua that "We've found 228 gold bars abandoned at a toilet in the Shah Amanat International Airport."

Also on Tuesday morning, he said another 37 bars were seized in the airport from a passenger shortly after he arrived in Chittagong, some 242 km southeast of capital Dhaka, from Dubai.

According to the official, the gold bars worth about 162.5 million taka (around 2.08 million U.S. dollars). Endi