Kolkata: Gold Pasta worth Rs 73 Lakh hidden in the underwear seized from smugglers, who tried to forward it as an excretion of man, at the city airport on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident occurred at around 12:50 a.m.
when CISF officials watched a man walk uncomfortable as he crossed the door frame metal detector (DFMD).
The man – Ali Mohammed – wanted to ride Delhi’s flight scheduled to leave Kolkata in one hour.
“DFMD doesn’t feel anything and no handheld metal detector.
Our screener then went for physical and felt something unusual around the groin area.
He was taken to a separate narrow room.
Two thin plastic packages of yellow metal paste found in clothes In it, “said a CISF official.
In interrogation, the man originally tried to say he defecated in his pants when he was a stomach ache but then gave under strict interrogation.
Officials found 1.7 kg of gold pasta.
About 1.5 kg of gold can be extracted from pasta, which is approximately worth around Rs 73 lakh.
Bringing gold in the form of pasta is a new way adopted by smugglers to avoid metal detectors and x-ray machines installed at the airport.
According to officials of the Directorate of Income Income (DRI), smugglers first changed the yellow metal into powder and then produced compounds in paste.
About 850 grams of gold can be taken from every 1,000 grams of pasta.