Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) claimed to have held two people with 112 gold bars, weighing 16.5 kgs, from Amrakhali border area at Benapole on Wednesday, reports UNB.
The two have been identified as Omar Faruk, 27, son of Manu Mia and Farhad Hossain, 32, son of Barek Sarkar of Chandpur district.
Lt Col Minhaj Ahmed Siddique, commandant of BGB-21, said based on secret information their team nabbed the duo from the border area around 9:30 pm and seized the 112 gold bars estimating Tk 16.5 crore.
The process is under way to file a case at Benapole Port police station in this connection, he added.
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