Customs seize gold hidden inside dates at IGI airport
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Customs seize gold hidden inside dates at IGI airport

Hindustan Times  

A 56-year-old man was arrested at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport for attempting to smuggle over 170gm gold by concealing it inside dates in his luggage, officials said on Thursday. A video shared by customs also showed officers inspecting the dates before pulling out small pieces and placing them on a tray. Customs officers said they recovered gold worth ₹15 lakh after individually inspecting several kilogrammes of dates he had brought from Jeddah. In two other cases, customs officials arrested an Indian man for smuggling gold worth ₹1.3 crore in paste form and two Thai women attempting to smuggle marijuana worth ₹27 crore.

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Gold worth ₹8.47 crore seized at Mumbai airport; three staffers among five held
1 week, 1 day ago

Gold worth ₹8.47 crore seized at Mumbai airport; three staffers among five held

The Hindu  

“The Mumbai Customs has seized more than 10 kg of gold valued at ₹8.47 crore in four operations at the international airport in Mumbai and arrested five persons, including three private airport staff members,” officials said on Monday “The seizures were made between March 13 and 15, 2025 and some of the accused had concealed the precious metal in their …

Customs seizes gold, weed and cash worth over Rs 30 crore; 6 arrested in Mumbai
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Customs seizes gold, weed and cash worth over Rs 30 crore; 6 arrested in Mumbai

India Today  

Customs officers at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport seized gold, narcotics, and foreign currency during operations conducted on January 9 and 10. The substance, valued at Rs 11.918 crore, was concealed in double-layered plastic packets inside trolley bags. In a separate case, two passengers from Bangkok were caught with 18.442 kilograms of suspected hydroponic marijuana. Customs officers also intercepted two …

Gold worth ₹29 lakh concealed as metal buttons seized at IGI airport in Delhi
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Gold worth ₹29 lakh concealed as metal buttons seized at IGI airport in Delhi

Live Mint  

Delhi: Gold worth ₹29 lakh was seized by the Customs Department at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Monday, January 6. “While the passenger cleared the DFMD without triggering any alarms, a detailed manual inspection of the baggage revealed 201 silver-coated rings appearing to be made of gold, ingeniously concealed as metal buttons of apparel,” the customs department said in …

Gold Smugglers Caught On Flight After Shifty Behaviour Gives Away Their Plan
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Gold Smugglers Caught On Flight After Shifty Behaviour Gives Away Their Plan

ABP News  

Three individuals were caught smuggling gold after they raised suspicion among the air staff after they refused three meal services. While travelling on Indigo Airlines flight 6E-1802 from Uzbekistan’s Almaty to Delhi the air staff noticed that the individuals refused all three of their meal services, and sat completely still throughout the three-and-a-half-hour flight. Meanwhile, a passenger travelling domestically from …

How customs officers seized gold bar worth ₹9 lakh hidden inside cream box at Delhi’s IGI airport
3 months, 3 weeks ago

How customs officers seized gold bar worth ₹9 lakh hidden inside cream box at Delhi’s IGI airport

Live Mint  

Delhi customs officials seized 117 grams of gold worth around ₹9.5 lakh from a person travelling to Delhi from Riyad at Indira Gandhi International airport. Customs officials received information about a massive gold smuggling attempt, which led to strict checking at the IGI airport. Further examination of the baggage led to the recovery of a silver-coloured gold bar, weighing 117.00 …

Custom officials seize gold, electronics worth Rs 8.68 crore at Mumbai airport, three arrested
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Custom officials seize gold, electronics worth Rs 8.68 crore at Mumbai airport, three arrested

India TV News  

The Mumbai Customs on Monday said that they seized 10.6 kg of gold and electronics worth Rs 8.68 crore at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in multiple cases in the last four days. The officials informed about the seizure and added that three persons were also arrested in connection with the seizures in the last four days As per …

Customs seize 11.40 kg gold, electronics worth ₹7.46 crore
10 months ago

Customs seize 11.40 kg gold, electronics worth ₹7.46 crore

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: The Customs department seized over 11.40kg of gold and electronics items valued at ₹7.46 core in the last two days at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The officials intercepted 22 people, including two foreign nationals, and found gold concealed in their clothes, sanitary pads, trolley, undergarments and inside and on the body. The officials recovered 24 kt gold dust …

Customs department seizes gold worth ₹48 lakh at Amritsar airport
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Customs department seizes gold worth ₹48 lakh at Amritsar airport

Hindustan Times  

Acting on a tip-off that gold was being smuggled into the country, officers of the Customs Commissionerate intercepted a passenger who arrived at the international airport here and seized the yellow metal from him, officials said on Friday. The official said the passenger was acting suspiciously and his interrogation and search resulted in the recovery of four capsules of gold …

Spicejet passenger conceals gold worth ₹16 lakh in her sandals, held at Mumbai Airport
1 year ago

Spicejet passenger conceals gold worth ₹16 lakh in her sandals, held at Mumbai Airport

Live Mint  

The Mumbai Airports Customs officials on 20 March seized 240 grams of gold valued at over ₹16 lakhs, reported ANI quoting officials. This is the second incident in the past three days, as on 15 and 16 March, the customs also seized over 2.66 kilograms of gold valued at ₹1.46 crore and various electronic goods across five cases. Apart from …

Customs seize over 500g gold worth ₹25.75 lakhs at Cochin airport from passenger
1 year, 7 months ago

Customs seize over 500g gold worth ₹25.75 lakhs at Cochin airport from passenger

Live Mint  

On late Tuesday, the Customs department made a significant recovery at Cochin International Airport in Kerala, uncovering a cache of gold weighing over 500 grams, with an estimated value of about ₹25.75 lakhs, according to officials. The overall estimated worth of the seized gold amounted to ₹25.75 lakhs, as conveyed by a statement issued by Cochin Customs. Two weeks ago, …

Smuggled gold worth ₹8 crore seized in Vijayawada
1 year, 10 months ago

Smuggled gold worth ₹8 crore seized in Vijayawada

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The Customs here has made a huge seizure of smuggled gold worth ₹8 crores in an early morning operation. Commissioner of the customs commissionerate K. Engineer said the carriers of smuggled gold were split into teams and travelling in a car and in private buses from Chennai to Vijayawada. “Four persons carrying gold with them were arrested under provisions …

Customs Sleuths At Hyderabad Airport Seize 14.4 Kg Gold Worth Rs 8 Crore, 4 Arrested
2 years, 1 month ago

Customs Sleuths At Hyderabad Airport Seize 14.4 Kg Gold Worth Rs 8 Crore, 4 Arrested

ABP News  

Gold weighing 14.9 kg, valued at around Rs 7.89 crore was seized from 23 women passengers, all Sudan nationals at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, Customs officials said on Thursday. On thorough search of passengers luggage and also the persons, it was found that the passengers had concealed the gold at different places such as small cavities created …

Customs department find gold worth ₹40 lakhs in flight’s washroom
2 years, 3 months ago

Customs department find gold worth ₹40 lakhs in flight’s washroom

Live Mint  

Customs department at Cochin International Airport on Sunday recovered gold, concealed inside a packet from a private flight's washroom. Earlier in the day, Customs Air Intelligence Unit at Cochin International Airport intercepted a male passenger and seized gold, valued at over ₹44 lakhs, concealed inside his body. "During the examination of the said passenger, four capsules of gold, weighing around …

Delhi: Gold valued over Rs 94 lakh seized at IGI airport, two people held
2 years, 3 months ago

Delhi: Gold valued over Rs 94 lakh seized at IGI airport, two people held

India TV News  

Delhi: Two air passengers have been arrested at the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi for allegedly smuggling 1,849 gm of gold valued at over Rs 94 lakh. When the baggages were opened, the Customs officials recovered gold jewellery worth Rs 94,80,667," said Nisha Gupta, Joint Commissioner of Customs IGI. The gold was seized under Section 110 of Customs Act. …

Andhra Pradesh: Vijayawada Customs Seizes 13Kg Gold Worth Rs 6.7 Crore, Four Persons Arrested
2 years, 5 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Vijayawada Customs Seizes 13Kg Gold Worth Rs 6.7 Crore, Four Persons Arrested

ABP News  

New Delhi: The Vijayawada Customs Commissionerate busted a gold smuggling racket and seized 13.189 kg of gold having market value of Rs 6.7 crore and Rs 4.24 crore unaccounted cash in a massive operation simultaneously conducted at multiple locations in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. During this customs operation, four persons smuggling the metal were arrested from various places under provisions …

Gold worth Rs 57 lakh seized from passengers at Chennai airport
2 years, 11 months ago

Gold worth Rs 57 lakh seized from passengers at Chennai airport

India Today  

The Customs officials at Chennai airport seized 1.18 kg gold worth over Rs 57 lakh from two Dubai-based passengers on Wednesday. Based on specific input, the officials intercepted the passengers and found 4 bundles and 4 band strips in the form of gold paste from the two. 1.18 Kgs of Gold valued 57.07 lakh seized under the Customs Act, 1962. …

WATCH: Woman Stitches Rs 18 Lakh Gold Beads to Burqas, Nabbed at Hyderabad Airport
3 years ago

WATCH: Woman Stitches Rs 18 Lakh Gold Beads to Burqas, Nabbed at Hyderabad Airport

News 18  

In the latest series of incidents of smuggled gold being dug out, the yellow metal worth about ₹18 lakh and weighing 350 grams were seized from a female passenger on Sunday at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. Customs officials claimed on January 22 that gold worth Rs 1.36 crore was confiscated from a passenger at the airport in Hyderabad. …

Gold Worth Rs 1.09 Crore Seized at Mangaluru International Airport
4 years, 2 months ago

Gold Worth Rs 1.09 Crore Seized at Mangaluru International Airport

News 18  

Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport on Thursday seized 2.15 kg of gold worth Rs 1.09 crore from two people who arrived on a flight from Sharjah. Based on intelligence and profiling of passengers, Customs personnel intercepted Faizal Thotty Melparamba and Mohammad Shuhaib Mugu, both natives of Kasaragod in Kerala, a Customs release said. Over 2.154 kg of gold of …

Gold Worth Rs 1.10 Crore Goes Missing from Customs Custody in Gujarat
4 years, 3 months ago

Gold Worth Rs 1.10 Crore Goes Missing from Customs Custody in Gujarat

News 18  

Gold worth Rs 1.10 crore has gone ”missing” from the custody of the Customs department’s office here in Gujarat, police said on Friday. The FIR was lodged under the IPC section 309, which deals with criminal breach of trust by public servant, at the Jamnagar ’B’ division police station on Thursday evening, said police inspector, Kunal Gadhe. ”After taking back …

How Customs officials remove gold concealed in the rectum of smugglers
4 years, 5 months ago

How Customs officials remove gold concealed in the rectum of smugglers

Op India  

Over the past few months, there have been a great many numbers of gold smuggling cases reported by the customs officials from various parts of the country. Increased number of cases where gold is hidden in the rectum Recently, Customs officials in Chennai recovered 864 grams of gold paste, valued at Rs 45.4 lakhs, from four passengers travelling from Dubai. …

South Korean woman held with Rs 2.5 cr worth of gold bars at IGI airport
5 years, 8 months ago

South Korean woman held with Rs 2.5 cr worth of gold bars at IGI airport

India TV News  

A South Korean woman was arrested at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying seven gold bars worth approximately Rs 2.5 crore in violation of rules, a Customs official said on Monday. She was apprehended on Saturday after her flight from South Korea's Incheon city landed at Terminal-3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, the official said, adding that the gold …

Woman held with gold worth over Rs 23 Lakh at Lucknow airport
5 years, 10 months ago

Woman held with gold worth over Rs 23 Lakh at Lucknow airport

Hindustan Times  

A woman passenger returning from Bangkok was held with 697 gms gold worth Rs 23.42 lakh at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport on Friday morning. She was able to escape the customs checking, but we managed to scan her purse and caught her smuggling the gold into the country,” said Niharika Lakha, deputy commissioner, airport. “We seized around 697 gms …

Gold smuggling from Gulf sees a rise
6 years, 1 month ago

Gold smuggling from Gulf sees a rise

Hindustan Times  

Gold smuggling from Gulf countries has seen a spurt in recent months with the customs department at Lucknow airport seizing the precious metal worth ₹30 lakh from two passengers, who came here from Dubai in the last two days. Assistant commissioner of customs, Lucknow airport, Niharika Lakha said although the smugglers were now using people working in the Gulf to …

Customs dept heightens vigil to curb gold smuggling in festive season
8 years, 4 months ago

Customs dept heightens vigil to curb gold smuggling in festive season

Hindustan Times  

Customs officials have prepared a new checklist to prevent smuggling of gold into the country this festive season. Later, when we were taking them for medical examination, they confessed to concealing gold in their private parts,” said a customs official. From concealing it in the shoe sole and false cavity of bag and even inside the body, to smuggling in …

Mumbai customs officers find gold worth Rs19.38 lakh under plane seat
8 years, 4 months ago

Mumbai customs officers find gold worth Rs19.38 lakh under plane seat

Hindustan Times  

Officers from the Air Intelligence Unit of Mumbai customs on Monday found a bag containing six gold bars, worth Rs 19.38 lakh, inside an aircraft at Mumbai airport. It was the second such discovery at Mumbai airport in the past few days; on Thursday, AIU officers found an unclaimed bag full of gold bars at the international airport. A source …

Diwali crackdown: Gold, iPhones seized at Mumbai airport in two days
8 years, 4 months ago

Diwali crackdown: Gold, iPhones seized at Mumbai airport in two days

Hindustan Times  

Seven smuggling cases were detected at the Mumbai International airport in 48 hours by the Air Intelligence Unit. AIU officials said a passenger, Drastamat Vardanyan, travelling on an Armenian passport, arrived from Dubai carrying a 1,227-g gold chain valued at Rs33.98 lakh, which was seized. WATCH: 7 smuggling attempts busted in two days Another passenger, Kaiser Khan, who arrived from …

Customs finds bag full of gold bars Mumbai international airport
8 years, 5 months ago

Customs finds bag full of gold bars Mumbai international airport

Hindustan Times  

The Air Intelligence Unit of the Mumbai customs found an unclaimed bag full of gold bars at the Mumbai international airport on Thursday morning. AIU officials stated that a smuggler may have abandoned the gold for someone else to pick up before the customs recovered it. In the past couple of years, the AIU has found unclaimed gold in cotton …

Smuggler who escaped customs last week finally caught with gold worth ₹19.37 lakh
8 years, 5 months ago

Smuggler who escaped customs last week finally caught with gold worth ₹19.37 lakh

Hindustan Times  

A man who managed to dodge customs last week wasn’t lucky the second time as he was caught with gold bars that weighed 700 grams in early on Monday. AIU stated that the gold bars were cleverly concealed inside the jeans pocket and the socks worn by the passenger. “A detailed personal search and interrogation of the passenger resulted in …

Gold vanishes from IGI’s customs warehouse, rip-offs replace haul
9 years, 3 months ago

Gold vanishes from IGI’s customs warehouse, rip-offs replace haul

Hindustan Times  

All that glitters is not gold, customs officials at Delhi’s international airport will tell you. A rich haul of contraband gold seized from smugglers flying into the airport was giving the customs department a headache because their warehouse has been compromised and thieves were replacing the precious metal with fakes. Customs officials posted at Indira Gandhi International Airport had done …

Gold seizure at Mumbai international airport surges by 300%-IndiaTV News
10 years ago

Gold seizure at Mumbai international airport surges by 300%-IndiaTV News

India TV News  

Mumbai: Gold seizure by Customs at the Mumbai international airport has increased by over 300 per cent this fiscal till February compared to same period last year. "During the last fiscal we had seized 272 kilograms of gold till February 2014, but this year we have seized 856 kilograms of gold," Milind Lanjewar, Additional Commissioner of Customs told PTI. Meanwhile, …

Delhi: to check smuggling, flyers under gold watch at IGI airport
11 years, 9 months ago

Delhi: to check smuggling, flyers under gold watch at IGI airport

Hindustan Times  

Passengers coming from or via Dubai, especially those wearing or carrying jewellery, will be under special watch at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. HT Image After two cases of gold smuggling were reported in the past three days — and that too within a few days of the government increasing duty on gold import — the customs department has asked …

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