Hyderabad: Recruiting airport `insiders', hiding gold in aircraft toilets and seats - smugglers are coming up with craftier ways to hoodwink Customs sleuths.
In May 2014, Bhaskar Reddy and Rami Naidu, both GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) security wing employees, were caught red-handed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths while handing over 8 kg of smuggled gold to Gulbarga-based Mazhar Ali at the airport's parking lot.
This was the first time that the law enforcement agency busted a massive gold smuggling racket involving airport staffers.
Six months later, Hyderabad police nabbed four smugglers from Chandrayangutta with 4.19 kg gold in their possession. When the case was later handed over to the DRI, investigations once again pointed to the involvement of an `insider' working at the international facility in Shamshabad.
23/11/15 Mahesh Buddi/Times of India
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In May 2014, Bhaskar Reddy and Rami Naidu, both GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) security wing employees, were caught red-handed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths while handing over 8 kg of smuggled gold to Gulbarga-based Mazhar Ali at the airport's parking lot.
This was the first time that the law enforcement agency busted a massive gold smuggling racket involving airport staffers.
Six months later, Hyderabad police nabbed four smugglers from Chandrayangutta with 4.19 kg gold in their possession. When the case was later handed over to the DRI, investigations once again pointed to the involvement of an `insider' working at the international facility in Shamshabad.
23/11/15 Mahesh Buddi/Times of India
