A preventive team of customs house recovered 30 gold bars weighing around 3.48 kg in an abandoned from a dustbin at HazratShahjalal International Airport on Thursday.
Sources at the airport said officials of the team spotted an object in abandoned condition in a dustbin kept near Bay No. 12 of the airport at around 9:30 am.
Abandoned bars are found in dustbins. But its carrier was not found.
A member of the preventive team at the Dhaka Customs House, Nafis Amin Rizvi, also stated that criminal cases have been launched in relation to the recovered gold bars under customs law.
Later, 30 gold bars worth Tk 3.50 crore were recovered from it, said customs official.
