Six held with Rs 1-crore gold at Chennai airport

Chennai: Smuggled gold, reportedly worth `1 crore, was seized from eight passengers who arrived at the Chennai airport from Singapore and Colombo, in separate incidents on Thursday. ?
Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said they arrested six persons - four hailing from SP Pattinam, Ramnad district and one from Pudukottai- when they landed from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
They were found to be carrying 26 gold bars in their rectum, apart from gold weighing a total of 2.9 kg in the form of white metal hooks usually found on lady’s handbags.
The men were acting as carriers, concealing the gold bars tightly wrapped in a black coloured insulation tape, the officials said, while adding that they were nabbed on the basis of? specific intelligence inputs.
DRI additional director general C Rajan said, “They said that they had to hand over the gold to one person waiting outside the airport, but we could not find that person.”
04/02/12 New Indain Express/IBN Live

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