BENGALURU: A woman wearing a custom-stitched sports bra filled with padding Sleep Caught on arrival donning a brief, specially fitted to the elastic belt, worth Rs 17.5 lakh and yellow metal with a value of Rs 44.4 lakh Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) recently.
while the woman took off from Dubaiman was coming from Abu Dhabi, Both were arrested by the officials of Bengaluru Customs.
with sources air intelligence unit Bengaluru Customs (AIU) at KIA said the woman arrived on Emirates Airlines flight EK 564 from Dubai on the morning of October 8.
Officers involved in passenger profiling in the arrivals bay noticed something unusual about the woman’s posture as she was moving.
Women officers surrounded her and realized that the passenger was nervous and gave absurd answers to their questions. She was immediately taken away and officers searched her to find that there was something unusual in the bra she was wearing. He was asked to remove the undergarment and hand it over to them.
Sources said the officials cut the padding area and found that the inserts were filled with gold paste weighing 348 grams and it was priced at Rs 17,53,630 in the market.
The man had arrived by Etihad Airways EY 216 in the early hours of Sunday and was taken into custody soon after the flight took off. He had bandages tied around his waist and had gold paste weighing 866 grams, which cost Rs 44,37,453. He has been booked for smuggling and customs evasion.
gold recovered from plane
In another case, a passenger who landed at the Bengaluru airport from Mumbai on Monday evening was caught for carrying three raw gold chains weighing 899 grams.
He boarded a Dubai-Bengaluru flight from Mumbai with a mission to retrieve gold kept at a place inside the plane by another smuggler coming from Dubai. Sources said that he recovered a gold chain worth Rs 46.7 lakh from the plane and flew with them to Bengaluru on his home leg. Officials did not reveal the identities of the three suspects, citing an ongoing investigation.
while the woman took off from Dubaiman was coming from Abu Dhabi, Both were arrested by the officials of Bengaluru Customs.
with sources air intelligence unit Bengaluru Customs (AIU) at KIA said the woman arrived on Emirates Airlines flight EK 564 from Dubai on the morning of October 8.
Officers involved in passenger profiling in the arrivals bay noticed something unusual about the woman’s posture as she was moving.
Women officers surrounded her and realized that the passenger was nervous and gave absurd answers to their questions. She was immediately taken away and officers searched her to find that there was something unusual in the bra she was wearing. He was asked to remove the undergarment and hand it over to them.
Sources said the officials cut the padding area and found that the inserts were filled with gold paste weighing 348 grams and it was priced at Rs 17,53,630 in the market.
The man had arrived by Etihad Airways EY 216 in the early hours of Sunday and was taken into custody soon after the flight took off. He had bandages tied around his waist and had gold paste weighing 866 grams, which cost Rs 44,37,453. He has been booked for smuggling and customs evasion.
gold recovered from plane
In another case, a passenger who landed at the Bengaluru airport from Mumbai on Monday evening was caught for carrying three raw gold chains weighing 899 grams.
He boarded a Dubai-Bengaluru flight from Mumbai with a mission to retrieve gold kept at a place inside the plane by another smuggler coming from Dubai. Sources said that he recovered a gold chain worth Rs 46.7 lakh from the plane and flew with them to Bengaluru on his home leg. Officials did not reveal the identities of the three suspects, citing an ongoing investigation.