300 cartons cigarettes worth Tk 9 lakh seized at Dhaka Airport
Some 300 cartons of foreign cigarettes were seized by the Dhaka Customs Property authorities at Hazrat Shahjalal AIRPORT TERMINAL in Dhaka on Wednesday.
The cigarettes were seized after those were determined abandoned at No. 5 belt location in the afternoon.
Dhaka Customs Home assistant commissioner Solaiman Hossain said being tipped off, the members of the preventive team of Dhaka Customs Property started vigilance residing at numerous points of the airport. At one level of the vigilance and search, they noticed 300 cartons of overseas cigarettes lying on the conveyer belt.
"The cigarettes had been of Easy Gold manufacturer. The market selling price of the cigarettes will end up being Tk 9 lakh. Legal measures have already been taken in line with the customs rules," he said.
