Lankan caught smuggling gold into India

A Sri Lankan passenger had been caught trying to smuggle 900 grams of gold into India yesterday (5) at the Tiruchchi Airport in Chennai, say diplomatic sources.
When the passenger was checked at the airport, Indian Officials had detected the gold hidden in his waist belt. The value of the gold carried was said to be around two million Indian rupees. It was thought that although the receiver of the gold might have been at the airport as well, news of the detection would have scared him off.
09/12/10 Thilini de Silva/Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka

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Categories: Airports Dec 2010, Foreign Dec 2010