Chennai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has asked Air India for detailed information on certain employees in the Gulf sector after investigations linked the carrier's staff to two recent cases of gold smuggling into the country.
These employees include aircraft cabin crew members, flight engineers and ground handlers who were involved in the two flights on which DRI made two large seizures.
In the first, on October 7, investigators found a huge stash of gold biscuits weighing 32 kg and worth close to Rs 9.5 crore hidden in a toilet abutting the cockpit, when an Air India flight from Dubai touched down in Chennai. In another bust three days later, DRI officials arrested an Air India Express flight attendant at Calicut airport on Sunday and seized gold bars worth Rs 1.84 crore from her.
13/11/13 Arun Janardhanan/Times of India
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These employees include aircraft cabin crew members, flight engineers and ground handlers who were involved in the two flights on which DRI made two large seizures.
In the first, on October 7, investigators found a huge stash of gold biscuits weighing 32 kg and worth close to Rs 9.5 crore hidden in a toilet abutting the cockpit, when an Air India flight from Dubai touched down in Chennai. In another bust three days later, DRI officials arrested an Air India Express flight attendant at Calicut airport on Sunday and seized gold bars worth Rs 1.84 crore from her.
13/11/13 Arun Janardhanan/Times of India
