What next? Gold found in wafer tin, trouser hooks at Mangalore Airport
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Feb 18: Smugglers of gold are getting innovative by the day, but not enough to outsmart the alert customs officers at Mangalore International Airport.
The officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport busted yet another modus operandi and detected concealment of gold in the baggages of passengers arriving from Dubai on Tuesday February 18, in two separate cases.
The officers seized gold totally weighing 789.950 grams valued at Rs 24,09,347 in the two cases.
In the first case, the officers seized one gold sheet and one gold rod, totally weighing 351.350 grams and valued at Rs 10,71,617 concealed in a cream wafer tin and a marker pen and further concealed in a carton.
The carton was seized from the possession of a passenger named Jaiyafar Chala Muhammed Kunhi Haji, a resident of Vidyanagar, Kasaragod. He arrived at Mangalore International Airport on February 18 at around 5.30 am by Jet Airways fight 9W531 from Dubai.
In the second case, the officers seized 18 sets of gold hook holders and hook bar holders for trousers, coated with silver colour paint, totally weighing 438.600 grams and valued at Rs 13,37,730.
The gold hooks and bar holders were concealed in the trousers kept in a carton box that was in possession of a passenger named Noushad Mouval, a resident of Thachangad House, Pallikere, Kasaragod. He arrived at Mangalore International Airport on Tuesday at around 7.30 am by Air India Express flight IX814 from Dubai.
In both the cases it is noticed that 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.