Gold worth Rs 1.32 crore seized at Chennai airport, three arrested

CHENNAI: Customs officials at Chennai airport seized 2.88kg gold, worth Rs 1.32 crore, from three passengers from Dubai on Saturday and arrested them.
Customs said based on specific intelligence that gold was likely to be smuggled from Dubai, three passengers who had arrived here in a FlyDubai flight (FZ 8517) and IndiGo flight (No 6E 8497) were intercepted and searched. Two of these passengers are natives of Chennai while other hails from Ramanathapuram.
They confessed to carrying gold paste bundles concealed in their rectums. Twelve bundles (four each) of gold paste were recovered from their rectums. A total of 2.77 kg of gold was recovered after extraction. Three gold bits, weighing 116 gram, were recovered from their pants pockets (one each).