The Customs Air Intelligence Unit sleuths at the Cochin International Airport on Monday seized foreign currency equivalent to ₹24.36 lakh from the baggage of a passenger bound for Kuala Lumpur. The seizure was made from the check-in baggage of one Mohal Govindasami Andal Alagar, 55, of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu when he was about to board an Air Asia flight.
Gold seizure
This comes close on the heels of the seizure of a paste-like material, suspected to be gold, weighing 489.72 grams from a passenger who arrived at the airport on Sunday.
The material smuggled in in three packets wrapped with black adhesive tapes were hidden in the rectum of one Hamza Hakkem, 50, of Kasaragod when he arrived by an Air India Express flight from Dubai.
