Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Gold worth Rs 1.10 crore seized from passengers at Chennai airport

Chennai: Customs officials seized 2.65 kg gold, worth Rs 1.10 crore, from six passengers at Chennai airport on Monday night and Tuesday.

On Monday night, Ashaff Ali Khan, 51, of Sri Lanka, who arrived here from Colombo in a SriLankan Airlines flight (UL123), and Mohamed Azarudeen, 21, and Kalandar Abbas, 36, of Ramanathapuram, who arrived here from Colombo in an IndiGo flight (6E 1204), were intercepted and questioned. They admitted to having concealed gold paste in their rectums. Ten bundles containing gold in paste form were recovered from them.

On Tuesday morning, Mohamed Ramzeen, 51, of Sri Lanka, and Thajilamin,41, of Ramanathapuram, who arrived here from Colombo in a SriLankan Airlines flight (UL125) were intercepted and questioned. They admitted to having concealed gold in paste form in their rectums. Seven bundles containing gold paste were recovered.
07/01/20 Siddharth Prabhakar/Times of India
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