Customs intelligence detained a person with 12 gold bars hidden inside his rectum at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

During the boarding off after a flight that came in from Malaysia around 12:16am, one Sharif Ahmed was frisked, DG custom intelligence Moinul Khan told The Daily Star.

Sharif, 33, hailing from Comilla, at first denied of possessing any gold. But his abnormal pattern of walking intensified the suspicions. The man was taken to a hospital for x-ray.

The x-ray revealed the existence of three pouches inside his belly. He later pushed them out.

The value of the total gold is about Tk 60 lakh.