Mangaluru: Acting swiftly on specific intelligence, the officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mangaluru, on Thursday arrested a passenger at the Mangaluru international airport here and seized foreign currencies worth over Rs 25 lac. The arrested is Mohammed Farooque Armar (51), a native of Bhatkal.
The officers arrested Farooque while he was waiting to board the SpiceJet flight SG59 bound for Dubai. Farooque had by then completed all check-in and immigration formalities.
On thorough examination of Farooque's baggage, the officers found that bundles of foreign currencies were deftly concealed inside biscuit and confectionery packets. Assorted foreign currencies comprising US dollars, British pound, euros, UAE dirhams, Saudi riyals and Qatari riyals, totalling 25,07,162 in Indian rupee value were recovered from Farooque. The currencies were seized under the provisions of Customs Act, 1962 read with FEMA rules and RBI guidelines issued in this regard.
