A 24-year-old man from Kodagu landed at Bengaluru\u2019s Kempegowda International Airport with gold paste worth Rs 55 lakh hidden in custom stitched jeans and underwear. The smuggling attempt reportedly unfolded after Indigo airlines flight 6E 1486 landed from Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports the air intelligence unit of Bengaluru Customs said that the sleuths noticed something unusual about Kodago youth after on his arrival in the early hours of Sunday. The suspect was then frisked and his luggage checked. Sleuths closely examined the black jeans he was wearing and found pouches of gold paste stitched near the waist area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man\u2019s underwear had many such gold pouches. Sleuths recovered 907 gm of gold paste from the youth and booked him for smuggling and customs duty evasion, the publication mentioned. Last month too, the customs officials had caught a passenger who was trying to smuggle gold paste weighing 284 gms. The man landed at Kempegowda international airport from Sharjah with gold paste hidden in the fly of his pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports gold was concealed in a cover stitched along the zipline. The officials also recovered 3,300 foreign-brand cigarette sticks and 324 packets of cosmetics from his luggage. The three units of gold paste was worth Rs 47 lakh. Minister of state for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary a few days ago presented government data on gold smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The data stated seizure of smuggled gold had risen to an all time high of 3917.52 kg in January-October this year. As many as 4798 cases of gold smuggling were recorded till October 2023, and the quantity of gold seized stood at 3917.52 kg. The data revealed that 3502.16 kg of smuggled gold was seized in the country in 2022 and 3982 smuggling cases were detected. In 2021, 2383 kg of smuggled gold was seized and 2445 cases detected while in 2020, 2,155 kg of smuggled gold was seized and 2567 cases were detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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