Jessore: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a man with 14 pieces of gold bars weighing 1,800 kg from Churipotti at Benapole on Sunday night.

The arrestee was identified as Bazlur Rahman, in his fifties, a resident of Baro Anchra village of Benapole.

Tipped off that a big consignment of gold bars was being smuggled out to India, a team of the border force conducted a drive there at about 7:30pm, said Nayek Subedar Abdur Samad, commander of Khulna BGB Battalion-21 Daulotpur camp.

Later, the BGB members recovered 14 gold bars, worth Tk 50 lakh, after searching his body.