Enforcement & Seizures

Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (CIID) is entrusted with the enforcement of customs law, rules and regulations in Bangladesh through intelligence gathering and its analysis. In doing their job, CIID makes a large number of seizures interdicting goods/consignments smuggled or imported illegally into Bangladesh. Some of these seizures involving gold, narcotics, currency etc. are really spectacular. Major enforcement operations conducted by CIID and major seizures made by them will appear here:
SI no. Title Download
1 Shahjalal's two-and-a-half kilogram gold crossing the passengers (Prothom… Download
2 The next budget will be of the people-friendly and welfare oriented (Prothom… Download
3 Revenue collection rises 20pc (The Daily Star, Date-27/04/2017) Download
4 Wind of reform at NBR (Daily Samakal, Date-27/04/2017) Download
5 Next budget to ensure social development, employment; NBR chairman (New… Download
6 Nojibur opens new email to take suggestions (The Daily Observer, 23/04/2017) Download
7 At Chittagong airport, 60 gold bars were seized with the passengers (Daily… Download
8 Start Now Operation ThunderBird (Bangladesh Pratidin, 17/01/2017) Download
9 Now NBR has become a people oriented institutions- Nojibur Rahman. Download
10 Three thousand memory card seized at Shahjalal Download
11 NBR to open email accounts to hear taxpayers complaints(Daily Star, 18/01/2017) Download
12 Corrupted one will not spare ACC-NBR(Bangladesh Protidin, 19/01/2017) Download
13 NBR is in new heights. [Amader shomoy, 03/01/2017] Download
14 Order for not marketing smuglled cigarette Download
15 Eleven kg gold is recovery from Qatar Airways. Download
16 NBR revenue collection rises 19.21% in Q1 (Dhaka Tribune, 29/12/2016 Download
17 NBR asks int'l orgs to surrender passbooks of 395 staff by Jan 31 Download
18 Month long drive against tax evaders begins Download
19 Most of the objectives of SDG can be achieved before 2030 (Ittefaq:19/12/2016) Download
20 NBR wiill call explanation for missusing Duty free car. Download
21 Passenger detained at Sahjalale with foreignof currencies of 18 lakh. Download
22 NBR working to create investment friendly environment. Download
23 Gold smuggling: Malaysian citizen jailed for 14 years. Download
24 534 crores collected in a day Download
25 Customs officials recover 4.64kg of gold at Shahjalal Airport Download


CIID also publishes a journal named “Goyendar Chokh”. It contains anecdotes, news clips, research articles etc. To download various issues of “Goyendar Chokh”, click on the links below:
SI no. Title Download
1 Goyendar Chokh - 2016 Download
2 Goyendar Chokh - 2015 Download
3 Goyendar Chokh - 2014 Download


Orders/SOPs etc. issued by Directorate of Customs Intelligence & Investigation (CIID) are provided below:
  1. CIID Introduces Pocket Notebooks. To download, click here.