Bangladeshi air passenger held, huge foreign & Indian

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jan 25 2017 | 12:28 PM IST
Currncies of various denominations of Euro, Pound, Durham and Riyal, collectively valued at millions of dollars internationally, were seized from a Bangladeshi passenger at the N S C B International Airport today.
Airport sources said the customes officials yesterday recovered the currency found in the possession of the passenger, identified as Suman Ahmed
as he was on way to taking a Kuala Lumpur flight.
Ahmed, who had earlier come to Kolkata from Dhaka, was also found to be in possession of Indian currency valued at Rs 69,36,000 which he told interrogators had been converted from Bangladeshi Taka at Burrabazar area of city, the sources said.

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First Published: Jan 25 2017 | 12:28 PM IST

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