LUDHIANA: A team of the Ludhiana Customs Commissionerate deployed at the Chandigarh International Airport seized gold worth over Rs 10.28 crore from a Dubai-returned passenger on Friday.
Customs officials said that raids are being conducted at several places, including Khanna in Punjab as part of further investigation into the case.
Customs commissioner Vrindaba Gohil said, “On March 3, a Dubai-Chandigarh Indigo Flight No 6E56 landed at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport. The customs officers deployed at the airport had shortlisted a 30-year-old passenger based on analysis of Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) and intercepted him. The officers detected and recovered 18 bars of 1kg each of pure gold bearing marking “ETIHAD GOLD DUBAI UAE” having 995.0 purity.”
Gohil also added, “The contraband gold was packed in a tiny hand-held bag which the passenger cleverly thrusted into one of his checked-in bags after collecting them from the baggage conveyor belt.
The market value of the seized gold is Rs 10,28,16,000. The passenger was a first-time traveller to Dubai.
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Gold worth Rs 10.28 crore seized from Dubai-returned passenger at Chandigarh airport
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