Malaysian woman with six gold bars held at Dhaka Airport

A Malaysian woman was detained at the Dhaka Airport for attempting to hide gold bars on her body.

NEW DELHI: A Malaysian woman with six gold bars has been detained by enforcement officers at the Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Bangladesh, according to a report.

Bangladesh bdnews24.com reported that the 53-year-old woman was detained when she was going through the green channel at about noon on Tuesday.

According to the report, she was frisked after she attracted suspicion on the way she walked and the search revealed six gold bars weighing one kg on her.

The report quoted Armed Police Battalion’s Assistant Superintendent Nur-e Alam Siddique as saying that the woman came to Bangladesh on a Malaysia Airlines flight at about 11 am.

“She never came to Bangladesh before, according to the travel details on her passport. She was also not fluent in English, so we could not ascertain yet her destination in Bangladesh,” he had said.

Legal action was being taken against her, the online newspaper quoted Customs Assistant Commissioner Jewela Khanam as saying.

- BERNAMA