The Customs Authority recovered 160 gold bars weighing 20kg from inside the toilet of an aircraft that landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the early hours of on Tursday.
The customs officials recovered the gold from an aircraft of Regent Airlines at 5:45am after it landed from Kuala Lumpur, said Assistant Commissioner of Biman Customs M Wazed Ali.
The estimated price of the recovered gold was Tk80m, the customs officials said.
Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) had also arrested a passenger with 5.5kg of weed from the airport on Monday.
The arrestee was identified as Suman, 23.
Senior ASP of the AAPBn Ehtesamul Haq said Suman was arrested from airport terminal departure gate 1 when he was carrying the weed wrapped with black carbon paper.
A case has already been filed under the Narcotics Control Act 1990 against Suman, who hailed from Dakshin Sree Rampur village of Lakshmipur.