Two women were detained at Dhaka airport on Saturday morning for attempting to smuggle in 40 gold bars, weighing 4.665kg and worth Tk2.4 crore, in their anal cavities. According to Customs Intelligence officials, the two women, Jesmin Akhter, 35, and Parveen Akhter, 25, were passengers on a Regent Airways flight traveling the Muscat-Chittagong-Dhaka route. When officials questioned Jesmin and Parveen, they had initially denied the allegation that they were smuggling gold, but when pressed, they confessed. Also Read- Gold worth Tk1.25cr seized at Dhaka AirportThey also said a man named Jalal had given them the gold bars at the Chittagong airport and they been instructed to place the bars inside their anal passages before boarding the plane to Dhaka. According to the detained women, it was the first time they had attempted to smuggle gold bars.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 30, 2017 13:18 UTC