Dhaka, Feb. 3 -- The officials of the Dhaka Customs House seized around 14 kg (120 pieces) of gold bars from a ramp bus of the US Bangla Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday.

The estimated price of the recovered gold bars is TK 13.50 crore. The driver and the ramp bus (Dhaka Metro-S-12-0113) have been detained.

The officials said that on secret information they have conducted the drive on a Dhaka bound flight of the US-Bangla

Airlines (BS342) from Dubai and they recovered the gold bars weighing 13.990 kg in the ramp bus.

The officials were preparing for filing a criminal case against the offender in this regard, according to a press release.

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