Officials of the Customs department at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) seized gold that was being smuggled by a male passenger.
Smuggled gold by a passenger was retrieved by Officials of the Customs department at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA).
Officials of the Customs department at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) seized gold that was being smuggled by a male passenger.
The passenger, hailing from Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district, had arrived from Dubai by a private airliner, a customs release said here Thursday.
The officials seized 24-carat gold weighing 364.5 gm, valued at Rs 18,95,400 from the passenger on Wednesday.
He had tried to smuggle the gold in the paste form packed in a paper and plastic packet which was concealed inside the stitched pocket of ladies' undergarments carried in a carton box, the release said.