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Man held with 3.49 kg gold at Dhaka airport

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UNB :
Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) detained a man along with 3.498 kgs of gold from Shahjalal International Airport on Friday night.
The detainee was identified as M Masud Imam.

Farhana Begum, assistant director of Customs Intelligence and Investigation circle, said a flight of Emirates Airlines landed at the airport from Dubai around 10:46 pm.

Tipped off, a team of CIID challenged Imam and seized 28 gold bars and gold coins weighing 3.498 kgs worth TK 3.14 crore from his two money bags.

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