Jeans Made for Smuggling? MIA Officials Seize Rs 4.37 Lakh Worth Gold from Dubai Passenger
Mangaluru: Now that its been raining incessantly outside, so also it has raining Gold inside the Mangaluru International Airport . Following close on its heels after a passenger from Gulf on 8 June, was caught with 647 gms of Gold worth Rs 21.48 in the form of powder and paste concealed inside his inner garments, now we have yet another passenger arriving from Dubai being caught by MIA officials for smuggling gold hemmed in jeans pant.
This is ridiculous, even though passengers have been caught red handed by the customs officials at the MIA, the gold smuggling doesn’t seems like ending. Every week or every other week, there are passengers coming from Gulf countries getting busted when they arrive at MIA. Many have tried different ways in smuggling gold, either gold stuffed inside electronic gadgets, in rectum, in form of powder or paste, etc etc.
This time the alert MIA officials yet again have thwarted an attempt made by an passenger to smuggle gold on 11 June. In a tweet posted by MIA dept it states that 24-carat purity gold in form of powder/paste was seized from a passenger who arrived from Dubai by an Air India Express Flight IX 384- and the value of the gold seized was worth Rs 4.37 lakh. As per the tweet, the passenger had the powdered gold hemmed in the ankle portion of the jeans that the passenger had worn.
The apprehended passenger is being investigated more by the MIA officials, if he has any connection with the gold snuggling gang that has been operating.
