Gold seized at Mangaluru airport
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The passenger arrived from Dubai
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The passenger arrived from Dubai
Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport seized 430 gram of smuggled gold valued at ₹20.89 lakh from a passenger who arrived from Dubai on July 2.
The passenger, Moideen Munasir Padinhar Mohammed, hails from Puthur in Kasaragod district of Kerala. He had concealed the gold in powder form mixed with solid gum in his rectum. He arrived by Air India Express flight IX 248. A case was registered against him, according to a Customs press release.
The team, which intercepted the passenger based on intelligence inputs, comprised Deputy Commissioner Praveen Kandi, Superintendents Rakesh Kumar and Vikas Kumar, and others, according to the release.
Customs officials at the international airport here have seized 196 grams of gold valued at ₹9.6 lakh from a passenger.A press release gave the name of the passenger as Abdul Raheem Eriyal Jafar from
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Smuggled gold valued at Rs 1.18 crore was seized from three passengers who arrived at the Mangaluru airport from different gulf nations, customs officials said on Saturday.
The yellow metal was confiscated in three separate incidents, a customs release here said.
In one incident on Friday, the officials intercepted two passengers hailing from Kasaragod in Kerala, for smuggling gold in paste form into the country.
While one had arrived here from Sharjah in the late hours of Thursday, the other had disembarked from an Air India flight from Dubai.
The two tried to smuggle gold by concealing in the press buttons of jeans shirts and gold chains concealed in shoes worn by one of them.
Gold worth over Rs 1 crore seized at Mangaluru Airport
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April 3, 2021
Mangaluru, Apr 3: Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) have seized gold worth over Rs one crore in two separate cases and arrested three people on charges of smuggling on Saturday.
Officials said that one team intercepted passenger Mohammed Ashif (28), hailing from Ullal town of Mangaluru.
The passenger had arrived by Air India flight from Dubai and tried to smuggle gold by concealing a specially designed inner garment, Jeans trouser and Knee pads. Net weight of the gold seized was 1.993 kg valued at Rs 92,27,590. Further investigation is under progress.
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