In Hyderabad, Sudanese passengers were caught with 14 kg of Gold, at Shamshabad Airport, on the 23rd of February, Thursday.
The arrest was made with the help of the Air Intelligence Unit of Hyderabad Customs in coordination with the batch officers of Airport Customs. The Unit intercepted 23 passengers at the Rajiv Gandhi Indira Gandhi Airport (RGIA) Hyderabad, who have arrived from Sudan via Sharjah by flight G9 458 on 22/2/23. The flight arrived at 04:00 AM based on passenger profiling and intelligence developed by Customs.
On a thorough search of passengers and luggage, a woman was found with Gold at different places such as small cavities created in the shoes, gold tied under the feet and also hidden folds of their clothes etc.
The Customs officers have found a total of 14.9063 Kgs gold of which 14.415 kg of 22 karats and 0.491 kgs of 24 karat Gold valued at a total of Rs. 7,89,43,544.
Based on the quantity recovered from individual passengers, 4 of them were arrested.
The total quantity of 14.9063 Kgs of gold was seized by Customs.
In the recent incident, it is one of the biggest seizures of gold by Hyderabad Customs at RGIA. Furthermore, a case has been registered and an investigation is underway.
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