Gold Smuggling

A passenger from Dubai was held at the airport in Amritsar for allegedly smuggling gold while an aerobridge operator was caught for conniving with him, officials said on Sunday.

Revenue Intelligence officers have seized 15.93 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at over Rs 8 crore smuggled through the India-Myanmar border, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.

Gold worth nearly Rs 1.3 crore was found hidden in a laptop belonging to three travellers bound from Dubai, at the Trichi airport in Tamil Nadu.

Revenue intelligence officers intercepted a consignment at Delhi air cargo complex and recovered 61.5 kilograms of smuggled gold having a market value of Rs 32.5 crore, the finance ministry said on Thursday.

Pune Customs officials seized smuggled gold worth over Rs 26 lakh from a woman passenger at Lohegaon International airport and arrested her as well as the receiver.

A man has been arrested by the customs officials here for allegedly smuggling gold valued around Rs 30 lakh into the country by concealing it inside a wig worn by him and in rectum,

Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport in the city confiscated gold worth Rs 5.34 lakh that was being illegally transported by concealing it in the buttons of a burkha, sources said on Saturday.

In one of the biggest seizures in the recent past, Customs officers on Monday seized gold worth Rs 7.5 crore at the international airport in Delhi from two Kenyan men, officials said.

Over two kilograms of gold worth Rs 1.14 crore was seized from passengers in two different incidents at the Chennai airport, Customs department officials said on Saturday.

An ingenious way to smuggle gold on a Dubai-Delhi flight failed when officials carried out an inspection of the plane on arrival at Delhi airport.

The Customs department in Hyderabad on Saturday seized 1,144 grams of gold valued at Rs 61.72 lakhfrom a passenger who arrived at the city airport from Dubai.

Hyderabad Customs has filed a case of gold smuggling against a passenger who concealed the precious metal as beads stitched onto burqas.

Two foreign nationals, including an Indian, have been arrested in Nepal on charges of gold smuggling, police said on Tuesday.

The sensational disclosure by gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh triggered a political row in Kerala as opposition parties on Saturday charged that the Chief Minister's office was aware of the alleged smuggling of god

Hyderabad Customs officials have filed a case of smuggling of gold against a passenger who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on a flight from Sharjah on January 9.

A passenger from Dubai was held at the airport in Amritsar for allegedly smuggling gold while an aerobridge operator was caught for conniving with him, officials said on Sunday.

Revenue Intelligence officers have seized 15.93 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at over Rs 8 crore smuggled through the India-Myanmar border, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.

Gold worth nearly Rs 1.3 crore was found hidden in a laptop belonging to three travellers bound from Dubai, at the Trichi airport in Tamil Nadu.

Revenue intelligence officers intercepted a consignment at Delhi air cargo complex and recovered 61.5 kilograms of smuggled gold having a market value of Rs 32.5 crore, the finance ministry said on Thursday.

Pune Customs officials seized smuggled gold worth over Rs 26 lakh from a woman passenger at Lohegaon International airport and arrested her as well as the receiver.

A man has been arrested by the customs officials here for allegedly smuggling gold valued around Rs 30 lakh into the country by concealing it inside a wig worn by him and in rectum,

Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport in the city confiscated gold worth Rs 5.34 lakh that was being illegally transported by concealing it in the buttons of a burkha, sources said on Saturday.

In one of the biggest seizures in the recent past, Customs officers on Monday seized gold worth Rs 7.5 crore at the international airport in Delhi from two Kenyan men, officials said.

Over two kilograms of gold worth Rs 1.14 crore was seized from passengers in two different incidents at the Chennai airport, Customs department officials said on Saturday.

An ingenious way to smuggle gold on a Dubai-Delhi flight failed when officials carried out an inspection of the plane on arrival at Delhi airport.

The Customs department in Hyderabad on Saturday seized 1,144 grams of gold valued at Rs 61.72 lakhfrom a passenger who arrived at the city airport from Dubai.

Hyderabad Customs has filed a case of gold smuggling against a passenger who concealed the precious metal as beads stitched onto burqas.

Two foreign nationals, including an Indian, have been arrested in Nepal on charges of gold smuggling, police said on Tuesday.

The sensational disclosure by gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh triggered a political row in Kerala as opposition parties on Saturday charged that the Chief Minister's office was aware of the alleged smuggling of god

Hyderabad Customs officials have filed a case of smuggling of gold against a passenger who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on a flight from Sharjah on January 9.