Customs intelligence officials and law enforcers arrested two persons with 64 gold bars, in separate drives yesterday morning at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and Kamalapur railway station in the capital.
The customs officials arrested an incoming passenger named Al-Amin at the airport and seized around 7.3kg of gold worth about Tk3.65 crore from his possession.
Al-Amin was on-board Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG 087 from Malaysia which landed at the airport around 6:00 am, said Moinul Khan, the director general of customs intelligence.
The officials challenged him for his suspicious movements while he was passing through the green channel.
After searching his body, they recovered five gold bars weighing 1kg each, one bar weighing half a kilogramme and 18 gold bars weighing 100 grammes. They also seized 26 passports with Malaysian visas from his possession.
Moinul claimed that Al-Amin, an active member of an international human trafficking gang, was carrying the passports with the intention of trafficking people from Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested a youth from Kamalapur railway station and seized 40 gold bars weighing around 5kg from his possession.
Shahin, 35, came from Chittagong by Turna Nishitha, said Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Kamalapur GRP police station.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of GRP raided the station and caught him soon after he disembarked from the train around 7:30am.
They searched his body and recovered the gold bars, the OC said, adding that the market value of the gold bars would be around Tk2.40 crore.