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Racket at Hyderabad airport busted, 3kg gold seized | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: Customs sleuths arrested a passenger who arrived from Dubai and an employee of Mapmygenome India Ltd’s Covid-19 testing team at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport for trying to smuggle in gold. The officials seized 3.14 kilo gold worth 1.65 crore from their possession.
In the past few days, Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) sleuths of the customs department managed to gather some information about gold smuggling taking place through the airport with the connivance of staffers working at Covid-19 testing centre at the international arrivals area.
Officers of the AIU identified and intercepted a 24-year-old youth who arrived from Dubai by Air India flight (AI-952) on Thursday along with a 33-year-old employee of Mapmygenome.
During interception, the AIU team found a polythene cover containing two pouches of duct tape wrapped hard metal and four pouches of gold paste kept in the dustbin placed in the cabin of Mapmygenone testing centre.
“During the interrogation, the Mapmygenone employee admitted that those pouches containing gold were handed over to him by the passenger when he came to give for Covid-19 test sample. The accused employee said he was supposed to take out the pouches discreetly through the customs area,” said a customs official. The accused employee claimed that he was receiving a handsome commission from the receivers and customs officials are trying to gather more information about the handlersand since when he has been involved in gold smuggling.
In the past few days, Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) sleuths of the customs department managed to gather some information about gold smuggling taking place through the airport with the connivance of staffers working at Covid-19 testing centre at the international arrivals area.
Officers of the AIU identified and intercepted a 24-year-old youth who arrived from Dubai by Air India flight (AI-952) on Thursday along with a 33-year-old employee of Mapmygenome.
During interception, the AIU team found a polythene cover containing two pouches of duct tape wrapped hard metal and four pouches of gold paste kept in the dustbin placed in the cabin of Mapmygenone testing centre.
“During the interrogation, the Mapmygenone employee admitted that those pouches containing gold were handed over to him by the passenger when he came to give for Covid-19 test sample. The accused employee said he was supposed to take out the pouches discreetly through the customs area,” said a customs official. The accused employee claimed that he was receiving a handsome commission from the receivers and customs officials are trying to gather more information about the handlersand since when he has been involved in gold smuggling.
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