$1.9 MILLION DOWN THE TOILET

Bangladesh cleaning crew found 280 gold bars, weighing 70 pounds, valued at nearly $2 million inside airliner’s toilet

For a little while, that had to be the world’s most expensive shitter.

PANNING FOR GOLD: CLEANERS DISCOVER 280 INGOTS WORTH £1.17 MILLION INSIDE PLANE’S TOILET
Officials believe person carrying the gold panicked and dumped the bars

Mail Online
October 22, 2013

Cleaners have discovered 280 gold bars worth £1.17million inside a plane's toilet at an airport in Bangladesh.

Armed police were called on board the plane which had flown from Dubai to Hazrat Shahjalal
International Airport in Dhaka where they recovered the gold weighing about 32kg.

Cleaners stumbled across the bullion when they were cleaning the plane's bathroom.

Custom officials said they knew the bars were on board and believe the person carrying them sensed there was a police presence and abandoned the gold in the toilet of the aircraft before fleeing the scene.

In the last eight months, more than 100 hauls of gold weighing around 300kg and other precious items have been seized at the airport.

Last month thieves took £1million worth of gold bars from an Air France plane.

The solid gold ingots were part of a multi-million pound cargo of nine cases containing 300 kilograms of gold.

Detectives said that 44 kilos of gold ingots were taken from a plane travelling from the French capital to Zurich.

Just two weeks before £170million worth of pure cocaine was found being shipped from South America to Paris on board another Air France aircraft.

The record-breaking 1.3 tonne haul was packed into 30 separate suitcases and all originated in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

All had been registered to passengers who did not exist and were not registered on the flight.

Six members of an international drug gang, including three Britons, were arrested following the discovery on September 11.

According to airport authorities, more than 3,600 people have been arrested in the last three
years for their involvement in smuggling.

They include airline crew members, officials and employees of the civil aviation, customs and immigration.