A Malayali passenger was held at RGI Airport for allegly concealing gold by converting it into thin wires, and plating the wires with aluminium. He had placed the Gold wires on the edge of his bag. Customs Officials found the passenger Abdul Rahman who came from Dubai had replaced the normal steel wires on the edge of his trolley bag with gold wires weighing 400 Grams. While scanning his bag, some bright wires were spotted, when Custom officials checked them manually they found that he had replaced the steel wires on the edge of the bag with aluminium-plated gold wires. The seized gold was worth arounf Rs.12lakhs.
In another case Customs officials also caught another person from Hyderabad while he was trying to smuggle 221 grams of Gold by concealing it in his body. The passenger came from Thailand via Singapore on Tiger Air. The total seized gold worth around Rs.18 lakhs..
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