The Customs Air Intelligence unit at the Cochin International Airport on Tuesday thwarted yet another attempt to smuggle gold worth around ₹25 lakh in compound form. The seizure was made from a passenger who arrived from Sharjah. He was intercepted at the exit gate by Customs sleuths on the basis of profiling. Two capsule-shaped packets containing gold in compound form and weighing 478.40 grams, hidden inside his body, were recovered.
In a second incident, 350 grams of gold worth around ₹22.27 lakh was seized from another passenger. The passenger, a native of Kozhikode, was intercepted at the green channel on his arrival from Dubai. A search resulted in the recovery of four gold coins.
