Mangalore: Gold smugglers are getting more ingenious, and equal to the task are officials of customs and directorate of revenue intelligence. After vain efforts to smuggle in gold in the hollow of clothes drying rack in the recent past, a passenger who tried to smuggle a gold tola bar and gold sovereign coin in his sandals become the last air passenger to be apprehended by the sleuths at Mangalore International Airport (MIA) at Kenjar here on Wednesday.
In a joint operation, sleuths of customs and DRI apprehended Manazir Hassan, a resident of Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district on charges of trying to smuggle the gold tola bar weighing 116.64 grams with marking Suisse fine gold 999.0 and old gold sovereign coin weighing eight grams. The total value of the gold seized by these agencies is Rs 3.84-lakh. Manazir had arrived at MIA on board the Air India Express flight IX 814 at around 8.15am.
13/11/13 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
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In a joint operation, sleuths of customs and DRI apprehended Manazir Hassan, a resident of Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district on charges of trying to smuggle the gold tola bar weighing 116.64 grams with marking Suisse fine gold 999.0 and old gold sovereign coin weighing eight grams. The total value of the gold seized by these agencies is Rs 3.84-lakh. Manazir had arrived at MIA on board the Air India Express flight IX 814 at around 8.15am.
13/11/13 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
