Saturday, March 07, 2015

Gold worth 70.58 lakh recovered from aircraft at Mumbai airport

Mumbai: Customs officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) recovered around 2.8kgs of gold worth Rs 70.58 lakh concealed inside the toilet of an Indigo aircraft and under the seat of a Jet Airways aircraft on Friday morning.
Based on information from Indigo security staff, Customs officials recovered two cut pieces of gold bars weighing a kilogramme worth Rs 24.68 lakh from the toilet of a Dubai-Mumbai flight. Another 1.8kgs of gold in the form of 16 gold bars were recovered from under seat no 17B of a Doha –Mumbai flight on Friday morning. “As both of these are unclaimed seizures, further investigation is in progress,” said Customs officials.
06/05/15 Anjali Lukose/Indian Express
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