Chennai: Customs officials at Chennai airport busted a gold smuggling racket on Tuesday when they caught a man, employed as a customer agent for Air India Air Travel Services Ltd, carrying smuggled gold bars and gold plates after receiving them from a passenger.
Based on inputs from the crime and intelligence wing of the CISF, officials of customs air intelligence intercepted the airline staff and a passenger.
The passenger, who arrived from Dubai on an Oman Airline flight, has been identified as Rashid, 31, of Kasargod in Kerala. The airline staff has been identified as P Vijay Murugan, 28.
The officials searched Murugan and found him carrying 24 gold bars of ten tolas each and two gold plates. The gold bars and plates, weighing 3kg and worth at Rs 93 lakh, were concealed in two black mobile flip covers.
26/06/18 Siddarth Prabhakar/Times of India
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Based on inputs from the crime and intelligence wing of the CISF, officials of customs air intelligence intercepted the airline staff and a passenger.
The passenger, who arrived from Dubai on an Oman Airline flight, has been identified as Rashid, 31, of Kasargod in Kerala. The airline staff has been identified as P Vijay Murugan, 28.
The officials searched Murugan and found him carrying 24 gold bars of ten tolas each and two gold plates. The gold bars and plates, weighing 3kg and worth at Rs 93 lakh, were concealed in two black mobile flip covers.
26/06/18 Siddarth Prabhakar/Times of India
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