Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Biggest catch: Rs 2.26 crore gold biscuits seized at airport

Mohali: Two passengers returning from Dubai were caught smuggling 8.164 kg of gold biscuits valued at Rs 2.26 crore into the country at the Chandigarh international airport on Monday in one of the biggest seizures.
The two men, one from Haryana and the other from Punjab, were carrying 35 gold biscuits each. The accused were arrested by the customs department, said an officer. They had packed the gold biscuits in carbon paper and then wrapped them with cello and white tapes so that their image does not show during X-ray scanning.
An intelligence officer said they received a tip-off about the two and also suspected their movement during the flight. On landing of the plane, sleuths from customs department questioned them and found the gold after scanning their baggage, said an officer.
Sources said both were working as a team and had 4kg of gold biscuits each. One biscuit weighed 116.64 grams.
30/01/18 Barinderjit Saluja/Times of India
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