Customs seizes 19 kg of gold bars hidden in packets of dates.

Customs Department at Uran has seized a consignment in which gold bars concealed in packets of dates were being smuggled into the city from Iraq. The gold bars weighing 19 kg are valued at Rs 4.50 crore.

According to the sources in the Customs department, the case of smuggling first came to the notice of Container Scanning Division (CSD), which scans the containers and interprets the images inside the containers as ‘clean’ or ‘suspicious’.

The containers, which are thought to be suspicious, are marked for ‘100 per cent examination’ by the dog staff.

CSD, which is based at Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House at Uran, had recently taken up a container of Iraqi dates, coming from a port in that country, for scanning.

“On analysing the image, it was found that some metal of high density was concealed inside the container. The container was then marked to the dog staff for examination. Once the dog staff too marked the image as suspicious, the said consignment was opened for examination.

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