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North Korean diplomat stopped with nearly £1m in gold at Dhaka airport | |
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Customs officers in Bangladesh caught a North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated $1.4m (£922,000) worth of gold into the country, a senior official has said. | |
The diplomat was released but Bangladesh is seeking to press charges. The gold weighed about 27kg in total. | |
“We recovered the gold both in the form of bar and ornaments from Son Young-nam, the first secretary of the North Korean embassy in Dhaka,” said Moinul Khan, director general of the custom intelligence department. | |
He said the diplomat was stopped while passing through the green channel at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal international airport after a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore. | |
A case has been filed with the customs department. “We have also initiated the process to file a criminal case against him,” Moinul added. He said the North Korean government would be informed soon and further action would be taken through government channels. | |
Moinul said that in recent months the smuggling of gold had increased, mainly from Dubai, but this was the first known instance of a diplomat carrying gold. |