While checking passengers from Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, officers, upon suspicion, intercepted a woman passenger. E-cigarettes, unaccounted US dollars worth Rs 70 lakh seized at Chennai Airport
CHENNAI: Customs officials seized e-cigarettes and US Dollars’ worth Rs 70 lakh from a passenger who arrived from Malaysia. While checking passengers from Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, officers, upon suspicion, intercepted a woman passenger.
During questioning, they found she was on a tourist visa to Malaysia. She also gave evasive replies. When her baggage was checked, it contained many packs of e-cigarettes and US dollar currency notes.
Later, she told the officers that a man had approached her at the Kuala Lumpur airport, and requested to hand over the packages to a person outside Chennai airport. The man had told her that the receiver would pay her after collecting the package.
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