Boarder Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has arrested a ‘smuggler’ along with 20 gold bars measuring 2.33kg from Jibannagar upazila in Chuadanga district.

The arrestee is a van driver named Md Sahabul Mia, son of Moksed Mandal hailing from village Sadarpara under Jibannagar upazila.

A press release was issued by Mohammad Saiful Islam, assistant director of Maheshpur BGB-58 Battalion in this regard. 

Acting on an intelligence report, Lieutenant Colonel Masud Parvez Rana, commander of the BGB-58 in Maheshpur, accompanied by his team took a strategic position and intercepted the van driver at 9:00pm on Sunday.

They searched the van driver Md Sahabul Mia and recovered 20 gold bars from his body.  

The estimated value of the seized gold bars is Tk 1,99,77, 292.

BDST: 1218 HRS, APR 10, 2023
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