Customs officials at the Hajrat Shahjalal International Airpot (HSIA) Friday seized 1.2kg of gold and 700 mobile phone sets from an Emirate Airlines flight from Dubai after it touched down at the airport at 6pm.
An individual, identified as Abul Kalam, 37, was arrested along with the gold and mobile phones while he was crossing the airports' green channel.
"Customs officials challenged him and found the gold and cell phone sets after scanning his luggage," said Customs Commissioner Zakiya Sultana, chief of the customs at the HSIA.
The customs officials made the seizure, nine days into the country's biggest ever haul of 1065 gold bars weighing 124 KGs on July 24. The gold was recovered Biman flight, and was worth almost Tk540m.
Zakiya Sultana told the Dhaka Tribune, "In the last seven months this year we have seized around 194kgs of gold, a huge quantity of other precious metals, currencies and other valuables. They have all been deposited at the Bangladesh Bank."
According to customs officials, a number of rings are active in the smuggling cantered at the country's biggest airport. A section of officials and employees from different government and non-government agencies deployed at the airport are also allegedly active as the part of the network.