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Customs seizes gold worth Rs 1.57 cr at MIA in February

Published On : 03 Mar 2016


Mangaluru: Officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport at Kenjar near here have seized contraband gold weighing about 5.5-kgs valued over Rs 1.57 crore in February. The smuggled contraband was found concealed in items like tiger balm bottles, oats tins, mobile phone cases, power banks, solar power inverter, iron box etc. The detections last month were in contrast to the usual modes of concealment in items like mixer, speaker, oven, and so on.

An official communique from the Customs on Wednesday stated that it is interesting to know that smugglers have attempted to smuggle the contraband by secreting it in their person. The officers seized some gold chains, bangles and anklets in crude form secreted on persons. It has been endeavor of Customs officers to detect any mode of concealment so as to recover secreted contraband.

With several detections of contraband concealed in conventional items, smugglers are now adopting new modus operandi to bring in contraband. Last year 46.72-kgs of gold seized and confiscated by Customs has been sold by the authorized Banks and amount of Rs 14.25 crore has been credited to Government exchequer.

In addition to gold, 232 cartons of foreign made cigarettes valued over Rs.4 lakhs were also seized last month.


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