Over 500 kg of gold seized at Mumbai airport in five months

MUMBAI: Gold worth Rs 3 crore was seized in three separate smuggling cases by Customs officials at Mumbai airport on Tuesday. With the latest seizures, the gold seized this month has crossed 100 kg. From April to July, the Customs had seized 405 kg of gold as compared to the 62 kg seized during the same time period last year.

In the first case, the passenger, identified as Khalou Asmae, a Moroccon national who had arrived from Dubai, was found to be carrying eight gold bars weighing about 8 kg and valued at Rs 2.08 crore. "The gold was concealed inside the pocket of her pants. She had worn a burkha over it. Her friend, from Egypt, who is the owner of gold, was also apprehended," said a customs official.

In the second case, a passenger, Hurzuk Shajahan Hajimiya who flew in from Sharjah, was found to be carrying seven gold bars weighing a total 816 gm and valued at Rs 21.3 lakh. He, too, had concealed the metal in his pocket. In the third case, the passenger, identified only as Huzaifa and his family of four, who had arrived from Dubai, had crude gold chains worth Rs 67.24 lakh weighing about 2.5 kg. With these seizures, the gold confiscated this month has touched 107 kg.

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