Thursday, December 05, 2013

500g gold bangle seized at Kolkata airport

Kolkata:  A 24-carat, half kilogram solid gold bangle camouflaged as a silver ornament was seized from a passenger at Kolkata airport on Wednesday morning, taking the amount of gold confiscation to over 50kg in the past 30 days. The bangle is valued at Rs 5.81 lakh and the month's seizure is worth Rs 15 crore.
Siddharth Modi, an Ajmer resident, was stopped by Customs air intelligence unit officers at the green channel on Wednesday morning after he arrived by Jet Airways from Bangkok.
05/12/13 Times of India
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