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Members of National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Customs Intelligence recovered seven gold bars, weighing 816 grams and worth Tk 70 lakh, that were abandoned in a bin at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Friday (10 May) night.
Airport sources said that acting on a tip-off, a joint team of NSI and Customs officials conducted a drive at the toilet near conveyer belt number one of the airport and seized the gold bars from a bin around 9:15 pm.
They also seized some packs of cigarettes.
The Customs officials believed that the gold bars might have been carried by a passenger of Air Arabia.
However, no one was arrested in this connection.
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