Staff Reporter
Fifteen people arrested in connection with a case involving the theft of two 1,500-year-old statues of Hindu god Vishnu from Zia International Airport hours before their shipment along with 145 other artefacts by a Air France cargo aircraft for Paris were placed under a five-day police remand for interrogation.
Of the arrestees, three were officials of Air France’s Dhaka office and seven were cargo loaders.
They were produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court yesterday morning by sub-inspector Monu Shoheb Imtiaz of Biman Bandar Police Station, who is also the investigating officer of the case. [Read more]