Thiruvananthapuram: A passenger who tried to be innovative while trying to smuggle gold through the international airport here was caught red-handed by the Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs here on Thursday.
Officials said Puthur Abdulla Ahmed Mansoor of Kasaragod reached the airport on an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi at 4.30 a.m. Officials from the Air Intelligence Unit, who got suspicious, intercepted him at the exit gate while he was going out of the baggage hall after customs clearance. A detailed examination, with his bags subjected to several rounds of X-ray scanning and physical checks, revealed two sheets of beaten yellow metal concealed in a false bottom of the two black duffel bags that he was carrying.
Officials said 49 thin strips, pasted together into two sheets, were concealed under the plastic black resin cover used as false bottom for the bags.
12/06/15 The Hindu
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Officials said Puthur Abdulla Ahmed Mansoor of Kasaragod reached the airport on an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi at 4.30 a.m. Officials from the Air Intelligence Unit, who got suspicious, intercepted him at the exit gate while he was going out of the baggage hall after customs clearance. A detailed examination, with his bags subjected to several rounds of X-ray scanning and physical checks, revealed two sheets of beaten yellow metal concealed in a false bottom of the two black duffel bags that he was carrying.
Officials said 49 thin strips, pasted together into two sheets, were concealed under the plastic black resin cover used as false bottom for the bags.
12/06/15 The Hindu
