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Mangalore: One kg gold concealed behind mirror in Jet Airways flight from Dubai

  •   Sun, Sep 14 2014 04:01:55 PM

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore

Mangalore, Sep 14: In another major breakthrough in busting gold smuggling, the officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport on Sunday September 14 recovered gold worth over Rs 31.73 lac hidden inside a Jet Airways flight No 9W531 that arrived from Dubai.

The gold was found concealed in two packets wrapped with black insulation tapes, affixed behind the mirror of the rear toilet of the aircraft.

The gold was found during rummaging of the Jet Airways flight that arrived from Dubai at 8.45 am.

Each of the packets was found to contain tola bars/biscuits, and totally there were ten tola bars/biscuits weighing 1166.7 grams, valued at Rs 31,73,424.

This is the second major seizure at Mangalore International Airport involving more than one kg of gold during the last one week, effected by the officers of Mangalore customs. Further investigations are on.
  

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  • Akshay, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 17 2014

    Objects behind the mirror are golden than they appear :)

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  • Pramod, Kundapura

    Tue, Sep 16 2014

    Into whose pocket is this gold going?

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  • yogesh, bombay

    Tue, Sep 16 2014

    Seeing "original" gold biscuits after long time

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  • Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Mon, Sep 15 2014


    Need of the hour is CCTV !

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  • sequeira, mangalore

    Mon, Sep 15 2014

    Kudos to the Customs at Mangalore Airport. Good Work.

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  • Nagesh kumar., Mangalore/Dubai

    Mon, Sep 15 2014

    Good job for bajape security group. But I have one more drought after seizing gold where this going. This information no body will mentioned even media also only highlighted yes we found for too much gold only. Better please that type illegal business if have found please give to charity section/ some poor persons. We need information after found all gold or wt ever before and currently please mention where it is going.

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  • Rita, Germany

    Mon, Sep 15 2014

    Avery good tip.Next time People will be often going to toilets than before.will be a Long que.why ?is of course the answer is clear.Hope someone will be having good luck.

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  • Hubert D'souza, Mangalore Dubai

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    In Flights Now We Can View In Golden Mirror!!!!!!!

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  • Sandy, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    Pardon my ignorance..! Can some one throw some light on what happens to the seized gold? If culprit pays the duty is he let off with the gold?
    What happens to the unclaimed yellow metal?
    I only see reports of seized gold. No one reports the later part.

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  • Alwyn, mlore

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    i wonder how many tonnes of gold could have been passed undetected ??

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    'malabari gold' is very famous!! 'Alukka Palukkina' haalooralli ulidavane 'Joyous gowda!' -)

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  • Praveen V, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    But we never asked "where is this seized gold is going" ?

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  • Alwyn, mlore

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    never even try to dig deep if you are a common man, you might lose your life.
    i am sure top business groups and underworld is behind this smuggling..

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  • Lingappa, Kuppepadavu/Amsterdam

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    I guess there is an inside man who would have collected this stuff from the bathroom in the pretext of cleaning/inspection etc etc. These smuggling activities are in full flow with some airport & airline officials too involved.

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  • Anwar Sadath, Manglore and Riyadh

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    These people from Keral ruined our life because of them Mangalore airport customs officers giving hard time us now days it's worth they even checking inside women their cloth Abaya, Burks, Salwar, etc

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  • WALTER MONTEIRO, DUBAI / UAE

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    Congrats again to Mangalore Airport Staff. Because of smuggling gold from Dubai, here now Gold rate is coming down.Good luck sir.

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  • Hubert D'souza, Mangalore Dubai

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    Oil Rate Also Came Down Below 100 Dollars Per Barrel!!!!!!

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    This is the crux of the issue!! "smuggling"... and its all from Kasargod punters!!they probably use this modus operandi effectively for long! ... either, this flight flys in domestic route, which then a domestic passenger can smuggle out>? or some airport/Flight crew is helping them to sneak it out??

    My only request to Oomen chandy and Shashi Taroor and in turn to Modi... please create a Airport for urself, in Kanhagad or some other area, so as to you fly directly out from there itself.. please, spare us mangaloreans!! for years together, Mangaloreans, have flown in and out of country and izzat/mehnat ki kamaai khate hain (except Kuwait war time, when few came back with whatever they cld lay their hands on :-D)..hamaari izzat mat looto :)

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  • Sdza, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    Smugglers being caught, good news. But how do these officials manage to find gold hidden in windows, toilets etc is a mystery, a food for thought!

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  • Ramdev, UAE

    Sun, Sep 14 2014

    they getting info from dxb authorities. They cant catch them in UAE..coz they want to export gold, everything is monitored by UAE official with scanners.

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