Custom personnel seize Gold worth Rs. 1cr at Kochi Airport
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Customs personnel at Kochi Airport have made nine seizures of gold worth Rs. 1 crore last week. Customs Commissioner Sumit Kumar said the passengers used various modes of concealment like hiding in rectum, shoes, inner-wear etc as well as in semi-solid paste form to smuggle gold, but due to the alertness of Customs sleuths these attempts were foiled. Here's more.
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Further, Gold worth Rs. 35 lakh seized yesterday
Further, Air Intelligence officers of Customs at the Kochi Airport effected a seizure of 1,140 grams of gold from a Kozhikode resident, who arrived by an Air India flight from Dubai yesterday. The gold was concealed in semi-solid paste form, filled in a polythene cover and strapped on to the waist of the passenger. The recovered gold was valued at Rs. 35 lakh.
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Gold seized worth Rs. 1 crore in 5 days
The total amount of gold seized during the period from February 27 to March 3 was 3.225 kg with a total value of Rs. 1 crore approximately.