Customs officials arrests a Japanese national along with 11 kilogrammes of gold worth about Taka 55 million from a flight of Regent Airways at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the early hours of on Saturday.
The arrestee was identified as Kengo Shibata.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the customs searched Shibata when he was crossing green channel at the airport around 1.10am and found 11 gold bars, each weighing one kg.
UNB said the Japanese citizen was coming to Dhaka from Singapore.