The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai airport customs detained five persons for smuggling foreign currency and gold. Those smuggling currency are first-timers whereas the two gold smugglers are frequent fliers. Of the two gold smugglers, one was caught on January 13 this year for smuggling cigarettes according to sources.
AIU officers in the small hours of February 1 intercepted a passenger named Muhammed Jalal Mullakoyathangal holding an Indian passport and about to depart to Sharjah, UAE, by Air India Express IX 251. Upon searching his belongings, 71 notes of Canadian dollars of denomination 100 each and 88 notes of Pound Sterling of denomination 50 each were found in his hand baggage. The notes, cleverly concealed inside layers of clothes in the hand baggage, amounted to Rs 722,530.
04/02/17 The Asian Age
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AIU officers in the small hours of February 1 intercepted a passenger named Muhammed Jalal Mullakoyathangal holding an Indian passport and about to depart to Sharjah, UAE, by Air India Express IX 251. Upon searching his belongings, 71 notes of Canadian dollars of denomination 100 each and 88 notes of Pound Sterling of denomination 50 each were found in his hand baggage. The notes, cleverly concealed inside layers of clothes in the hand baggage, amounted to Rs 722,530.
04/02/17 The Asian Age
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