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Vol. 5 Num 339 Thu. May 12, 2005  
   
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Tk 1.8 crore cellphone sets seized in Sylhet


Customs officials seized mobile phone sets, chargers and photo film worth about Tk 1.8 crore from the luggage of a Bangladesh Biman flight that arrived from Dubai at the Sylhet Osmani International Airport in the early hours yesterday.

A customs official said Sylhet Customs Commissioner Firoze Shah Alam and an assistant commissioner, tipped off by customs intelligence and the National Board of Revenue, seized eight pieces of unaccompanied luggage containing a huge number of mobile phone sets, chargers and camera film.

The luggage was booked under the names of four passengers--Fakhor Uddin, Abdul Jabbar, Anu Miah and Torikul Islam.

The customs officials made an inventory of the seized items in the presence of the police and other department officials. The filing of cases was on process, the official said.