Customs officials on Sunday caught two passengers who landed at the Kempegowda International Airport allegedly trying to smuggle 250 grams of gold paste and powder concealed in their pants and body parts .
Based on intelligence inputs, the officials intercepted two passengers at the airport soon after they arrived from Colombo, Sri Lanka. A detailed probe and physical frisking led the officials to recover 74.5 grams of gold power concealed in the pants, while the other passenger had concealed egg shaped gold paste weighing 155.3 grams in the rectum.
The officials suspect that the two passengers were part of an international gold smuggling racket and working as carriers. The duo was supposed to hand over the gold to their contacts on arrival. The officials are investigating to ascertain their network .
In another case, customs officials on Tuesday caught eight passengers trying to carry used laptops, mobile phones, liquor bottles, and foreign-brand cigarettes while checking the profile of the passengers who landed at KIA from Sharjah. Officials recovered similar goods from all seven passengers. A total of 21 laptops, 75 mobile phones, 28 liquor bottles, and 7000 cigarettes were seized from them.
One woman passenger was carrying three bags filled with 49,600 cigarettes.
