Air India staffer held for gold smuggling on the Kochi airport.
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The arrested Air India worker was recognized as Shafi — a local of Kerala’s Wayanad district. He’s being interrogated additional, the officers stated.
The Customs Preventive Commissionerate had acquired confidential info {that a} cabin crew member of the Bahrain-Kozhikode-Kochi service, was bringing gold. The Customs officers, together with the native police, interrogated Shafi after his behaviour raised suspicion, Occasions Community’s Vivek reported. It was in the course of the search that adopted when the gold paste was discovered on Shafi.
In the meantime, two passengers, who arrived from Singapore, had been arrested at Chennai airport on Wednesday for carrying gold weighing 6.8 kg valued at Rs 3.32 crores, Chennai customs informed information company ANI.
Based on officers, the passengers arrived in Chennai from Singapore by AI-347 and 6E-52.
1.5 KG GOLD RECOVEREDKochi | Air India staffer held for gold smuggling; 2nd such arrest in a 12 months.… t.co/wpTwCZgUUl
— ANI (@ANI) Mar 9, 2023
Chennai Customs in a tweet stated, “Based mostly on Intel, 2 pax who arrived from Singapore by AI-347 and 6E-52 had been intercepted by Customs on 07.03.23. On search of their baggage, gold completely weighing 6.8 kg valued at Rs 3.32 crore was recovered/ seized below the CA,1962. Pax had been arrested and additional investigation is on.”