Chennai: The accomplice of the smuggler who tried to slip 23 gold bars past customs officers on Sunday was nabbed in a late night operation. He had fled the airport without detection and had made his way to a hotel near the airport, from where a team from the Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs department arrested him late Sunday night.
Express had reported that Mumbai-based businessman Om Prakash Trilok Chandwani had arrived in the city on an Air India Express flight (IX 680) from Singapore at 3.30 pm. He had attempted to slip past the immigration and customs lobby by sliding through the green channel with two bags.
“We had been watching him ever since he got off the flight and he appeared very nervous. So we checked his baggage,” said a customs officer. They found that 23 bars of gold, weighing 1 kg each, had been wrapped in double linen cloth. He neither had sales receipts nor any document supporting the origin of the gold. He was taken in and grilled for over six hours before he gave up his accomplice.
24/06/14 New Indian Express
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Express had reported that Mumbai-based businessman Om Prakash Trilok Chandwani had arrived in the city on an Air India Express flight (IX 680) from Singapore at 3.30 pm. He had attempted to slip past the immigration and customs lobby by sliding through the green channel with two bags.
“We had been watching him ever since he got off the flight and he appeared very nervous. So we checked his baggage,” said a customs officer. They found that 23 bars of gold, weighing 1 kg each, had been wrapped in double linen cloth. He neither had sales receipts nor any document supporting the origin of the gold. He was taken in and grilled for over six hours before he gave up his accomplice.
24/06/14 New Indian Express
