Shawdesh Desk:

Customs Intelligence detained a man with 60 gold bars weighing 6.9 kilogrammes from Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Wednesday morning.

The identity of the arrestee could not be known yet.

Sources at the airport said that the man landed at the airport by a flight of Emirates Airlines EK-582 from Dubai at 8:20am.

Acting on a tip-off, customs officials took position at the key points of the airport. At one stage, the officials challenged the man for his suspicious movement when he was crossing the boarding bridge of the airport. Later, they recovered 60 gold bars which were hidden inside in his clothes, Mohammad Maruf Rahamn, assistant commissioner of Dhaka Custom House, said.

The value of the seized gold was estimated at around TK 5.17 crore, he added.

A process is underway to take legal action against him in this connection, the official said.