Chattogram customs officials seized on Saturday a container for reported money laundering by a paper importer.
The ship, MV Happy Bee, was supposed to carry imported white paper from China.
A team of the AIR (Audit, Investigation and Research) of Chattogram Customs House seized it.
They went for a physical examination of the content in the vessel at noon and found sand and mud in it.
Customs deputy commissioner Md Nur Uddin Milon said only sand and mud was found inside the 20-foot container (number HLXU 1367353).
The importer earlier claimed that it contained 19,656 kilogrammes of double A-4 size paper.
Banani Progress Impex Ltd of Dhaka brought the container.
Mrs Saj Trading, a C&F agent at 936 Sheikh Mujib Road, Chattogram, was to unload the cargo.
Mr Milon said a case will be registered against the importer under the Money Laundering Act.
He said the container reached Chattogram Port from Vien Zing Gang Port of China on August 26.
The customisation value of the cargo was Tk 12,93,410.
The importer paid Tk 7,88,372 as duty for the consignment in favour of Chattogram Customs House.
