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Mangalore: Now, gold found in toffees and eyeliner bottles at airport!

  •   Fri, Mar 21 2014 07:40:18 PM

Mangalore: Now, gold found in toffees and eyeliner bottles at airport!

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore

Mangalore, Mar 21: The officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport on Friday March 21 once again busted another modus operandi and detected concealment of gold in the baggages of two passengers from Dubai and seized gold totally weighing 529.640 grams totally valued at Rs 15,78,327 in two separate cases. 

In the first case, the officers seized gold pieces, totally weighing 298.450 grams and valued at Rs 8,89,381 concealed in chocolates (toffees) and further concealed in a carton box.

The gold pieces were found in the possession of a passenger named Davood Abdulkader Ibrahim, a resident of Paravanadukkam, Kasaragod. He arrived at Mangalore International Airport on Friday at about 4.45 am by Jet Airways fight 9W531 from Dubai.

In the second case, the officers seized gold strips, totally weighing 231.190 grams and valued at Rs 6,88,946 concealed in two photo frames and three eyeliner bottles placed in a carton box .

The gold was seized from a passenger named Abdur Rahman Kunnil Abdul Khader, a resident of Thalangara, Kasaragod. He too arrived at Mangalore International Airport on Friday by the same flight from Dubai.

Operations were conducted under the supervision of Krishna Kumar Prasad, assistant commissioner of customs, Mangalore International Airport and were led by B Prabhakara Poojary, superintendent along with superintendents Lionel Fernandes, Sendhil Murugan, B A Kariappa, H G Yogesh and Inspectors G Kumaraswamy, K T Preethi Suma, S Ranjan Behera and Ankit Kumar and Hawaldar Gulabi.

In both the cases it is noticed that the smugglers have 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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  • Shiva Shetty, Kateel, Mumbai

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    We must change the Mangalore Airport's name to GOld mine or something like that ...lol, too much pure gold we get every now n then, Metal detector detect the gold however they try to pack it, these Kasargod guys are making Indian Govt. richer for no reason

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  • Ethan, Florida\ Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    I think it is time to have a course on why you cannot smuggle gold through airports due the sophisticated/latest detectors/ scanners/ x ray machines these poor sods are still in 80's / 90's yes there has been lot of improvement in technology, but still it can be beaten but be creative guys think out of the box! Knowledge is the key!

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  • Shankar, Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    I dont understand why all are generalizing people from Kasaragod while commenting. How can you all conveniently forget that there is a striking similarity among these culprits other than that they are from Kasaragod?

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  • John Tauro, M'lore / Kuwait

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    Similarities indicate they may be a part of a big smuggling racket controlled by some known or unknown don.

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  • Deepak, Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    We are much experts in finding the gold and currency notes inside the aircraft, but not the Missing Aircraft!!!

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  • RJ roshan, mangalore

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    Wow....I will write a novel by using all ideas of bringing gold in various ways...
    Thanks to all Kalwas of Kasaragod...
    (althd kananaga chipe apund...mul pathnaga kaipe apund...)

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  • Eric Coelho, Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    In earlier seizure I made a comment "These smugglers are mentally sick people and need immediate treatment". The different ideas adopted is an explanation of desperation to amass ill-gotten through illegal means. Such ideas only mentally sick people will get.

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  • R D'Soouza, Mubai/Dubai

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    Kasargod can now be renamed as Kasargold!

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  • ali, saudi arabia

    Sat, Mar 22 2014

    Kerala is gods own country, but kasragod is gold own country

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  • Ronald D, Udupi

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    You are right Abdulla,They have constructed roads like inside Dubai Gold Souk(or olden Kalsanka-Manipal)!! We must appreciate, in Dubai it was 100 year old Road made worthy to the best possible!! In Mangalore newly constructed arrival/ departure is more chaotic!! There is U turn, there is one way, two way and if it rains most Chaotic!! Where is Vasudeva and who's planning it is??? Can they not manage proper two way traffic??? What kind of idea it is to put small concrete blocks and divide the road to the most unplanned manner??? Where are our ministers. MLA and MP's???? Come and see the glory of vehicular movement(without your waiting Chelas!!) in front of the so called Mangalore Airport when a couple of intl and domestic flights land (Intl Airport????) Take a break and make your claims!!!

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  • Lion John Francis Dsouza, leo Dsouza Lane, Milagres, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    As a citizen of India I would say that Mr. Chidambaram knew that this rubbish would happen. Even if 5 kgs of gold is caught the Custom guys record it as 2 kgs. Does Mr. Chidambaranm know about it ?

    Laws are made. They are passed by Parliament. But what is the ground reality ? Isn't it Mr. Chidambarams and the idiocity of our MP's incl. Mangalore MP Naleen Kumar Kateel, who never uttered a word because he never knew or understood English ?

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    Why these stupid guys do not understand the fact that the custom officers are having high tech machines..????

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  • Sir Lancelot, Manglore

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    No doubt one day u may find Gold in Baby Milk powder or in diapers...

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  • shekar Moily Padebettu, Udupi/Taluk

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    How smart people from Kasargod?There are lots of innovative ideas with them to smuggle gold into India.They could have even produced nuclear bomb,had they been sent to Baba Atomic Energy,Mumbai.Still, there may be some other ideas.But our custom officers are becoming more wise and wiser.Keep it up.One day we can build Mangalore airport with confiscated golds.

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  • GCP., Muscat

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    I doubt, Kasaragod is richer than Gujarat...!!!

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  • abdulla, india

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    must encourage this trade of indirect imports and confiscate the smuggled goods and build new and modern Mangalore.
    Easy and neat business -But have Customs -revenue intelligence officers from AAP.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Fri, Mar 21 2014

    The attraction towards the gold and its price is prompting people to do all sorts of illegal things to obtain it.

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