Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Now, 59 kg of seized gold missing from IGI airport vault

New Delhi: All that glitters is not gold inside customs' highsecurity vault at Indira Gandhi International Airport here. A 'high-level stock-taking committee' that recently checked the sealed packets at the vault found that many of them contained spurious pieces.
In all, about 83kg gold has been replaced with lookalike metals in the past two years, but the inspection team was shocked to find that 59kg gold, worth Rs 18.3 crore at current rates, had gone missing in this July alone.
On June 21, TOI had reported the theft of about 800g gold from a sealed packet in the vault. With that, the known pilferage since 2014 had gone up to 24kg.
"A complaint was registered at the IGI police station on Monday, " said commissioner customs Sanjay Mangal. The inspection committee carefully checked the packets on observing their weight did not tally with the records, and found yellow-coloured metal pieces inside, Mangal added.
20/07/16 Anvit Srivastava/Times of India

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