Bengaluru: Gold worth Rs 37 lakh smuggled in door locks, underware.
BENGALURU: Gold smugglers often adopt innovative ways to deceive customs sleuths at Kempegowda International Airport. On Tuesday, two attempts to smuggle in 1.1kg of gold worth over lakh — one where the yellow metal was crafted as components of door locks and the other where it was carried in paste form inside a passenger’s underwear — were foiled at KIA.
Sources with the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Bangalore customs said their team carried out profiling of passengers who disembarked from Gulf Air flight GF 282 (Bahrain to Bengaluru) that landed at KIA at 3.55am.
Following suspicion, customs officials intercepted a male passenger who was later identified as a 50-year-old from Uttar Pradesh. He had travelled from Saudi Arabia. After questioning him, the team inspected his check-in luggage to find door locks. On dismantling them, they found six gold biscuits worth Rs 18. 7 lakh. The suspect carried the gold inside the locks, assuming customs officials would clear them as hardware items as some components were painted in golden colour.
Related Posts
Over 2,600 smuggled liquor bottles seized in Zirakpur
The seizure was made by a Mohali excise team, in association with the police,...
Contraband goods worth Rs 74 lakhs seized in Tripura
West Tripura (Tripura) , January 2 (ANI): The security forces seized a total of...
Police seize ₹14.35 lakh of fake currency in Vellore
Abandoned fake currency notes worth ₹14.35 lakh were seized by the police on the...
Fake currency worth 2.17L seized, 2 held from Jhotwara area
Jaipur: The anti-gangster task force (AGTF) of the Rajasthan police arrested...