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Two passengers held for smuggling gold
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March 08, 2021 15:40 IST
160 grams of yellow metal bars were seized in the first incident and 2.3 kgs in the second case.
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160 grams of yellow metal bars were seized in the first incident and 2.3 kgs in the second case.
Enforcement authorities at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad, detained two passengers in separate incidents on Monday while they were trying to smuggle in foreign origin gold.
In the first case, Shaik Masthan, an Indian National who arrived from Kuwait was caught with 160 grams of yellow metal bars.
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It looks like any other toilet in an aircraft. It is of the usual size like a telephone booth, and there are plastic racks on which paper tissues are kept. The mirror looks nothing out of the ordinary. Except, there are over 2 kg gold neatly hidden behind the plastic cover of the mirror.
Send Customs officials seized 1.5 kg gold and foreign currency worth Rs 79. 23 lakh and arrested passengers at the Chennai airport.
Seized gold bars and foreign currency
Chennai:
On Monday morning, the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) officers on surveillance noticed one passenger going inside the toilet in the arrival hall. After he did not come out for a considerable time, the officers checked the toilet and found the passenger hiding in one of the toilets.Â
On questioning, he became nervous and informed that he had brought some gold with intention of smuggling but got panicky and hid it in the toilet. The officials found one packet wrapped with black adhesive tape in the toilet. On opening, two gold bars, one weighing one kg with marking MTM A011103 and another weighing half kg bar without marking, together weighing 1.5 kg and valued at Rs 71.85 lakh were recovered and seized under the Customs Act. The passenger was identified as one Ajmal Khan