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The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport witnessed two separate operations by customs officials result in the seizure of 61 kg of gold valued at Rs 32 crore, an official said on Sunday, making it the department’s greatest value seizure at an airport in a single day, according to reports.
An official who said that the seizures conducted on Friday resulted in the arrest of at least seven travellers, including five men and two women.
He claimed that this was the largest single-day seizure in the history of the Mumbai airport customs.
Four Indians returning from Tanzania were found carrying 1 kg gold bars in the first operation; the bars were hidden inside specially made belts with numerous pockets, the officer said according to the report.
News agency PTI quoted an official who said that officials found 53 kg of UAE-made gold bars worth Rs 28.17 crore hidden within the passengers’ torso-hugging belts.
According to the official, a Sudanese national at Doha Airport gave the travellers their belts during the transit period.
He said a court had taken the four travellers into jail and remanded them to 14 days of judicial custody. Similarly, he added that three passengers who had come from Dubai had 8 kilogramme of gold worth Rs 3.88 crore seized from them by customs officials.
He said that the trio, which included two ladies, was carrying waxy gold dust. The official said that the gold was cleverly hidden in the waistband of the travellers’ jeans.
He added that the trio were detained and remanded to judicial custody, and that one of the women was in her late 60s and using a wheelchair.
(With inputs from PTI)
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