: Mumbai, May 17, 2024

Airport Commissionerate, Mumbai Customs Zone-III seized over 11.39 Kg Gold & Cigarettes valued at Rs. 7.16 Cr in 27 different cases at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai, in the period between May 13 – 16, 2024. Gold was found concealed in various forms like gold dust in wax, crude jewellery, rhodium plated payal and gold bars in an ingenious way inside the baggage, in the rectum, under the burqa and on the body of the persons. Three persons were arrested in different cases.

   

One Foreign National, travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai, was intercepted and found carrying a piece each of 22KT Crude Gold Kada, Chain, Pendant, two rings having net weight 1093.00 grams concealed on body. The person was arrested,

​Two Indian Nationals, travelling from Jeddah to Mumbai, were intercepted and found carrying 24KT Crude Gold Bangles (16 pieces) having net weight 999.000 grams. These were found concealed on the body. Both were arrested.

​Two foreign nationals, travelling from Nairobi to Mumbai, were intercepted and found carrying 24KT Gold Melted Bars (07 pieces) having a total net weight of 523.00 grams concealed in the pocket of burqa and jacket worn by the passenger. In another case, twenty-two Indian Nationals travelling from Dubai (10 persons), Abu Dhabi (03 persons), Jeddah (01 person), Cairo (01 person), Doha (01 person), Hongkong (01 person), Kuala Lumpur (01 person), Kuwait (03 persons) and Muscat (01 person) were intercepted and found carrying 8575 grams gold concealed, inside undergarments, under the burqa, in the pocket of Jeans, in the rectum and on the person’s body.​ Yet in another case, one Indian national travelling from Abu Dhabi was intercepted and found carrying 24KT Gold Dust in wax (01 Pc) having net weight 197.000 grams and 12860 Sticks of Gold Flake Cigarettes with pictorial warning was found concealed inside the rectum and checked-in baggage respectively.

 

SC/PM  Source: Mumbai Customs Zone III

 

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