Chennai: A member of the TN special police was detained on Tuesday for trying to smuggle out 2kg gold from Chennai airport. The gold was seized from him at the airport.
Sources said the policeman on deputation at immigration department had received the gold from a passenger who landed from Colombo. He is suspected to have been assigned to take it out of the airport. , evading customs.
Air customs had a tip-off that a passenger to land from Colombo on Tuesday morning would be carrying undeclared gold, but they could not find any gold with any passenger from Sri Lanka. Customs officers then started looking at the calls the passenger had made. They found that the man from Colombo had called the policeman.
21/08/14 Times of India
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Sources said the policeman on deputation at immigration department had received the gold from a passenger who landed from Colombo. He is suspected to have been assigned to take it out of the airport. , evading customs.
Air customs had a tip-off that a passenger to land from Colombo on Tuesday morning would be carrying undeclared gold, but they could not find any gold with any passenger from Sri Lanka. Customs officers then started looking at the calls the passenger had made. They found that the man from Colombo had called the policeman.
21/08/14 Times of India
