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Tk 10 gold bars 'bound for India' seized in Jashore
Border guards have recovered 10 gold bars worth over Tk 10 million from a man in Jashore’s Nabharon.
Border guards have recovered 10 gold bars worth over Tk 10 million from a man in Jashore’s Nabharon.
The smuggling suspect, Moniruzzaman, 40, was then handed over to Benapole Port police on Sunday and a case was filed over the incident.
Lt Col Shahed Minhaz Siddique, commanding officer of the Jashore-49 Border Guard Bangladesh Battalion, said that Moniruzzaman planned to smuggle the gold bars to India.
Acting on a tip-off, a BGB patrol team intercepted a Satkhira-bound bus at the Nabharon intersection in the district’s Sharsha Upazila and found the gold bars in a bag tucked under Moniruzzaman’s seat in the bus, said the BGB official.
He also said the present market value of the gold bars is about Tk 10.14 million.