At Hyderabad Airport, Gold Was Taken From The Seat Pocket

At Hyderabad Airport, gold was taken from the seat pocket

Hyderabad, Nov 30, : Customs officials from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here confiscated 472.8 grams of gold in paste form from the seat pockets of a flight from Guwahati.
Customs sleuths found gold paste worth Rs.23.33 lakh by acting on specific intelligence.23.33 lakh.

 At Hyderabad Airport, Gold Was Taken From The Seat Pocket-TeluguStop.com

The Customs department opened a case against an unidentified passenger who arrived by 6E187 from Guwahati Monday.

On Tuesday, an official stated that efforts were being made to locate the passenger.

This is just a day after Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), arrested a man and seize gold worth more than Rs.1 crore.The accused was employed in a private company that provided catering services to an airline.

DRI claims that the accused had taken the gold hidden in an airplane to hand it over to the receivers on November 27, according to DRI.DRI sleuths caught the accused near the airport while he was carrying smuggled gold of foreign origin.

Two gold bars weighing 1 kg each were seized, each bearing foreign markings, and two thin gold sheets each weighing 100g.The total value of the yellow metal seized was Rs.1.09 crore.

According to the DRI, the accused was stealing gold from the aircraft during loading and unloading of food trays.He was stealing contraband from flights from the Gulf countries.

Investigators sought to find out more about the operations of this gang.

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