Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two Myanmar citizens along with 29.15-kg of gold ornaments from a house in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Saturday night.
The arrestees were Yeahia Khan, 45, son of Liakat Ali of Kutupalong Rohingya camp, and Anwar Sadek, 40, son of Mir Ahmed of Maungdaw in Myanmar.
Commanding officer of BGB-2 Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed said acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB conducted a drive at a house at Hinla of the upazila around 8:30PM on Saturday and recovered the gold ornaments, Tk 26,010 in cash.
Later, the detained them in this connection.
The BGB official said during primary interrogation, the arrestees informed them that Yeahia with the help of Anwar brought the gold ornaments in Cox`s Bazar from Myanmar for selling purpose.