Gold bars hidden in star panels

To the eye, the 2 things ar simply reversible star home systems, cost accounting solely some of thousands.
Customs officers at Hazrat Shahjalal International flying field yesterday confiscated 2|the 2} “home appliances” from two Chinese nationals.

Once taken safely off from the flying field, the appliances would are razed to recover the five.5 kilograms of gold stowed in them.
In reality, their price is within the crores.The gold would command a market price of AN astonishing quantity of quite Tk2.5 crore.

Customs officers throttled the try by detaining the 2 -- subgenus Chen Jifa, 29, and dong Shousheng, 35, -- and ill  forty eight gold bars once breaking the specially-made chambers within the devices with a hammer.

The Chinese nationals landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International flying field around 11:30am from a middle-eastern country and disembarked in the end the opposite passengers had gotten off the plane.

Having received secret data on the matter, officers of customs preventive team remained prepared and stopped them for questioning within the inexperienced channel.

“We met with a robust denial at the airport's inexperienced channel once we asked them whether or not they were carrying any taxable  things,” Othello Chowdhury, deputy commissioner of customs told The Daily Star. 

But the {luggage|the bags} scanner disclosed the 2 appliances within their luggage.

 “As we tend to tried to open it up, they even were warning U.S.A. of compensation for damaging their product,” Othello aforementioned.

An official then poor the appliances employing a hammer and located the gold bars hidden within, he said. 

The 2 Chinese nationals had gotten on-arrival visas at the flying field once showing 2 separate invite letters from two Gulshan-based garment traders.

According to the letters, each the detainees had return to East Pakistan to attend AN “important meeting” over exportation product from the 2 traders.

The phone numbers mentioned within the invite letter were found to be transitioned.

Customs officers suspected that the invite letters were fakes and meant for importing the gold safely. 

According to the detainees' passports, Jifa visited East Pakistan fourfold in 2019, whereas yesterday was Ding's 1st visit here.

“They didn't say something or reply to any question in custody,” aforementioned a customs official.

Arrest of foreigners with gold at Dhaka flying field is nothing new. Customs and Customs Intelligence officers earlier in remission voters of China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, India and a number of other African countries with gold and pretend foreign currencies.

Filing of 2 separate cases below the Customs Act and Special Powers Act is afoot.