A Dhaka court sentenced four people including two staffers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to 12-year imprisonment in a case filed over smuggling over 9kg gold from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The four convicts are Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC) pantry men Khandaker Ruhul Amin and Shahinur Islam, and gold smuggling gang members Iftarul Alam Sarker and Riaj alias Amjad. According to the case, members of the smuggling gang put the gold bars inside a tissue box in the toilet of flight BG-236 from Jeddah to Dhaka. The two Biman men took the gold bars from the flight and took those away by hiding inside their clothes. Later they hide those inside the food trolleys, only to hand those over to gold smuggling gang members.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 12, 2022 23:33 UTC