The Detective Branch of police early yesterday arrested the owner of the 14kg smuggled gold seized on December 23 from Shahjalal International Airport.
Mahmudul Hasan Roni, 25, was arrested from the capital’s Banasree area in Rampura in a gold smuggling case filed with the Airport police station.
Senior Assistant Commissioner of DB police Manjur Murshed said the arrest was made following confessional statement of Biman technician Abdus Sattar.
Abdus Sattar was arrested on Wednesday from the capital’s Uttara following information provided by the four previous arrestees in the case. Sattar was granted a 5-day remand on the same day by a Dhaka court.
The police official said a Dhaka court has granted a two-day remand for Roni after police brought him before the court following the arrest with a 10-day remand plea.
When asked, Manjur Murshed said a total of eight people were accused in the case and police is on the lookout for the other two accused.
According to the case statement, the flight in which the gold was being smuggled came from Kuwait via Chittagong where the two accused women boarded as passengers. Later, the men accused in the case handed over the gold to the women, who concealed it around their waist.
Customs intelligence held four involved with the smuggling – Anwara Begum, 30, Nahida Farzana Moni, 25, Anwar Parvez, 25, and Osman Sohel, 29, – and handed them over to Airport police. A case of later lodged against them with Airport police station but later it was handed over to DB for further investigation.
