Gold worth Rs 15.78 lakh seized at Mangalore international airport

March 21, 2014

Mangalore, Mar 21: The officers of Customs at Mangalore International Airport (MIA) have busted another modus operandi and detected concealment of gold in the baggage's of the two passenger coming from Dubai on Friday.

The seizure was worth Rs 15.78 lakh.

The officials seized gold weighing 529.640 grams in two separate cases totally valued at Rs.15.78 lakh. In the first case, the officers seized gold pieces, totally weighing 298.450 grams and valued at Rs.8.89 lakh concealed in chocolates in a carton box from the possession of a passenger identified Davood Abdulkader Ibrahim, a resident of Paravanadukkam Post, Kasaragod.

The passenger had arrived at Mangalore International Airport at 4.45 am by Jet Airways fight 9W531 from Dubai on Friday.

In the second case, the officers seized gold strips weighing 231.190 grams valued at Rs.6.88 lakh concealed in two photo frames and three eyeliner bottles kept in a carton box.

The accused in this case was Abdur Rahman Kunnil Abdul Khader, a resident of Thalangara, Kasaragod.

He had arrived at Mangalore International Airport by the same flight as the first passenger.

In both the cases the smugglers resorted to unique methods of concealing the goods by fabricating/moulding the gold in various shapes and concealing the same in their baggages.

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