Customs Intelligence recovered eight iPhones and some cosmetics from five cabin crew members of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday.
Based on secret information, a team of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) searched the bags of the five cabin crew, identified as Morzina Akhter Elin, Salma Sultana, Farzana Gazi, Moinuddin Adnan and Roman Sikder, soon after their flight arrived at the airport from Abu Dhabi.
According to the baggage policy, a crew member can bring in up to $300 worth of goods. But the total value of the confiscated products was far above that limit and lacked proper purchase documents.
During preliminary interrogation, they revealed that they (cabin crew) were carrying the seized goods for one Tanim Raj, a local businessman, in exchange for money, said the director general of CIID Dr Moinul Khan, reports UNB.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines have been directed to take departmental action against the five crew members for breaching the rules to bring in the seized costly mobile phone sets and cosmetics, including perfumes, he said.