Air India staffer held for helping currency smuggler at Chennai airport

Chennai: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence sleuths have seized US dollars worth Rs 20 lakh from inside a Singapore bound AI 346 Air India aircraft which was ready to board passengers early on Sunday.
The novel modus operandi used by smugglers point to a severe security breach. An Air India catering superintendent, MNVRK Prasad, took the small packet containing dollars in the high security area and into the flight. He kept it in the magazine pouch of seat 24A where the passenger, M Shajahan of Royapuram, was supposed to sit.
DRI additional director general C Rajan said that Prasad received the packet containing the currency on Saturday evening. "He hid the packet inside his reflector jacket, travelled along with a food cart, boarded the plane and kept it in the magazine pouch of the seat before passengers were boarded," Rajan said.
Shajahan seems to have informed him about his seat number after getting the boarding pass.
19/02/12 Times of India

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