 Sept 13: The customs authorities last night seized huge Saudi Riyal worth around Tk 2 crore from a Bangladesh Biman flight at the Shah Amanat International Airport here. | Ten million takas equal 1 crore. At todays exchange rate, that's $304,391.00. Walking around money to a Saudi. |
Sources concerned said the customs men, acting on a secret information,| "Ahhhh, I'll talk, I'll talk...just put that away!" |
raided the Biman flight, which reached from Saudi Arabia at around 10:30pm and recovered the said amount of foreign currency from the bunker of the flight. Nobody was nabbed in this connection. The recovered currency will now be deposited with the Bangladesh Bank. | Where you find stuff blowing up, ya got to figure Saudi money is involved. |
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