By Serajul Quadir DHAKA, March 6 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi customs officers caught a North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated $1.4 million worth of gold into the country, a senior official said on Friday. "We recovered the gold both in the form of bars and ornaments from Son Young Nam, the First Secretary of the North Korean Embassy in Dhaka," said Moinul Khan, Director General of the Custom Intelligence department, adding the gold weighed about 27 kg (60 pounds) in total. The diplomat was released after his confessional statement, but Bangladesh is seeking to press charges. "What he did is beyond diplomatic norms," Khan told Reuters, adding that a visitor can legally bring up to $1,282 worth of gold into Bangladesh. Khan said the diplomat had passed through the green channel at Dhaka international airport on a late arriving Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore.