<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) on Sunday detained an employee of Biman Bangladesh Airlines along with 68 gold bars&nbsp; weighing around 8 kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport .</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The detainee is Shafiqul Islam, 33, a resident of Khulna's Daulatpur Thana.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He joined Biman Bangladesh Airlines as a casual staff in 2013 and became a permanent employee in 2017.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Additional SP of Airport Armed Police (AAP) Mohammad Ziaul Haque said they detained Shafiqul Islam with the gold bars stashed around his waist around 10pm on Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Boeing 777 flight arrived at Dhaka airport at 7:30pm from Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When All the staff in charge of cleaning and maintenance left the aircraft, Shafiqul&nbsp; went inside it at 10 pm and his movement appeared suspicious to a team of APBn agents, ASP Ziaul said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">APBn found the gold bars after searching him in the presence of other law enforcers, the ASP said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“During interrogation, he didn’t give any clear answer about the source and the destination of the gold bars,” he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the APBn, the market value of recovered gold is Tk7.80 crore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Preparations are underway to file a case against him, the APBn official said. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>