BHUBANESWAR: Officers of Air Intelligence Unit of Customs on Thursday seized 295 grams of gold worth Rs 9,29,250 from a passenger, who arrived at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) right here from Bangkok.
The passenger, hailing from Delhi, arrived at the airport from Bangkok by Air India flight AI-339 on Thursday morning. Acting at the tipoff, customs officers intercepted the passenger and searched his frame and personal luggage.
“During the search, the officers recovered a work of cylindrical gold bar wrapped with black adhesive tapes from the smuggler’s rectum,” said RPS Rajwar, assistant commissioner of customs, BPIA Bhubaneswar.
On June 14, the Customs sleuths had seized gold weighing 355.12 grams worth Rs 11, 37,094 from a passenger, hailing from Kerala. This passenger had hidden the gold in powder shape inside of his rectum. It was once very tricky for the officers to locate as the gold had been melt, transformed into dust, wrapped with black adhesive and hidden within the smuggler’s rectum.
In the previous 4 months, smuggled gold worth over Rs 2 crore has been seized by customs and officers of the directorate of earnings intelligence (DRI) in and outdoor the airport.
On May 7, the DRI officers had stuck three passengers sporting 5.822 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 1.eight crore outdoor the airport. It was once the biggest such haul at the airport. On May 4, customs workforce had seized 301gram of gold worth Rs 9.64 lakh from a passenger coming from Kuala Lumpur.
The passenger, hailing from Delhi, arrived at the airport from Bangkok by Air India flight AI-339 on Thursday morning. Acting at the tipoff, customs officers intercepted the passenger and searched his frame and personal luggage.
“During the search, the officers recovered a work of cylindrical gold bar wrapped with black adhesive tapes from the smuggler’s rectum,” said RPS Rajwar, assistant commissioner of customs, BPIA Bhubaneswar.
On June 14, the Customs sleuths had seized gold weighing 355.12 grams worth Rs 11, 37,094 from a passenger, hailing from Kerala. This passenger had hidden the gold in powder shape inside of his rectum. It was once very tricky for the officers to locate as the gold had been melt, transformed into dust, wrapped with black adhesive and hidden within the smuggler’s rectum.
In the previous 4 months, smuggled gold worth over Rs 2 crore has been seized by customs and officers of the directorate of earnings intelligence (DRI) in and outdoor the airport.
On May 7, the DRI officers had stuck three passengers sporting 5.822 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 1.eight crore outdoor the airport. It was once the biggest such haul at the airport. On May 4, customs workforce had seized 301gram of gold worth Rs 9.64 lakh from a passenger coming from Kuala Lumpur.
Gold worth Rs 9 lakh seized from Bhubaneswar airport
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