Customs sleuths at the Cochin International Airport have foiled yet another ingenious attempt to smuggle in gold and seized the precious metal worth Rs.29 lakh from a person who landed here from Dubai.
Officials said the passenger, a native of Kozhikode, landed here on Wednesday night by an Air India Express flight from Dubai. While inspecting his baggage, they recovered 38 rhodium-coated gold plates, weighing 991.700 gram and valued at Rs.29 lakh in the international market.
The seizure of the yellow metal, concealed inside the transformers of a hand-drier and a compressor nebulizer kept in his check-in-baggage, has raised the suspicion that the smugglers are devising new ways for smuggling in gold.
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