54 kg of gold worth Rs 41 crore, Rs 10 crore in cash seized from abandoned vehicle in MP
The seizure was made in the wee hours of Friday on a tip-off.
A 30-year-old man was arrested at the Jaipur International Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle gold into the country by hiding it in his rectum, a Customs official said Tuesday.
Pankaj Saduwani was taken into custody at the airport Sunday night after the Customs personnel suspected “odd behaviour”. He was on a Thai Airways flight.
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During questioning Saduwani confessed that he was hiding six pieces of gold, weighing about 1 kg, in his rectum, the official said.
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Subsequently, he was arrested and the gold seized, the official said.
The official said the modus operandi of the gang is that a smuggler is given a photograph of the consignee — waiting outside the airport — and he has to handover the smuggled goods to that person only.
Saduwani is being further interrogated, he added.
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