Chennai: Air Customs Officials at Chennai Airport won 1,386 kg of gold, worth 60.27 lakh, from a passenger who arrived here from Sharjah on Tuesday.
Customs also confiscated foreign currencies worth RS 55.29 Lakh from three passengers going to Dubai.
Passengers arriving in Arabic air flights from Sharjah have hidden three gold pasta bundles, weighing 696 grams, in the rectum.
Gold in the form of rubber pasta, weighing 690 grams, cleverly pressed into the layers in his shirt and his pants.
He was detained.
Customs officials intercept three passengers who will board Emirates flights to Dubai and seize foreign currencies belonging to different countries hidden in the expanded storage area.
There was US $ 29,500, 1,15,000 UAE Dirham, Kuwait Dinar 1,840, Oman Riyal 2,470 and Bahrain Dinar 960 (total worth Rs 55.29 lakh).
Gold, foreign currency seized at the airport
