Mangalore: Gold hidden in cream wafer tin, hook bar holders seized at airport

Mangalore: Gold hidden in cream wafer tin, hook bar holders seized at airport

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 18, 2014 :   It seems there is no end to gold smuggling cases through Mangalore Airport. In a  latest case, Customs officials at the Mangalore International  airport have seized  gold hidden in the baggages of two passengers in two different cases reported on February 18, Tuesday. The seized gold  is valued at Rs 24,09,347 lakhs and weighing 789.950 grams.

 In the first case, customs officials  found a gold sheet and gold rod hidden in a cream wafer tin and marker pen   packed in a carton. The gold  weighing 351.350 grams  is said to be costing Rs 10,71,617. The arrested  passenger is Jayyaffar Chala Muhammad Kunhi Haji from Vidyanagar in  Kasargod who arrived by a Jet Airways flight from  Dubai at 5.30 am.

In another  case , officials  seized gold hook and hook bar holders for trousers which were hidden in trousers in a carton  belonging to a passenger from Pallikere, Kasargod, identified as Naushad Mouval. All hook bar holders were  given a silver paint coating to evade the attention of customs officials.

The gold is valued at Rs 13,37,730 and  weighed 438.600 grams.  The second passenger had arrived by another Air India Express flight from Dubai which landed  at the airport at 7.30 am.