Gold smuggling News
Earlier today, gold dealer Sahil Jain, who allegedly helped actor Ranya Rao sell smuggled gold, was sent to DRI custody till March 29.
While confessing to the crime in her first official statement given to the DRI, she admitted that authorities recovered 17 gold bars from her possession.
Ranya Rao's Arrested: Ponnanna asserted that Ranya was being treated as any other accused.
Ranya Rao, who is the stepdaughter of DGP Dr K. Ramachandra Rao, was produced before a special court judge for financial offences on the evening of March 4.
The customs officials recovered 1.5 kg gold (valued at Rs 1.11 crore), concealed inside the lining of trolley bags carried by the male passenger in the form of 15 silver-coloured metal wires, it said in a post on X.
The accused was intercepted after his arrival from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Passenger's consistent refusal to accept any refreshments during flight AI 992 from Jeddah to Delhi raised suspicions, ultimately resulting in his arrest.
An ITBP official stated that during patrolling, two suspects were observed in the area.
A gold bar of 24 K purity and weighed 149.000 grams, valued at Rs 8.90 lakh was extracted from gold powder ingeniously concealed in a Nutella jars
The gold bars, valuing over Rs 9 crore in the market, were seized while being smuggled from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia in 2020 as part of a criminal conspiracy to smuggle gold into India to derail the country’s economic security and monetary stability.
The gold was concealed for smuggling into India with the help of officials posted at the Surat international airport.
The Customs had received confidential information that the Air India cabin crew of the Bahrain-Kozhikode-Kochi service was bringing gold.
Gold bars worth approximately Rs 2 crore were discovered in flight bathroom
The incident occurred at IGI airport in Delhi on Sunday
The gold bars have a total appraised value of Rs 1,95,72,400
Seizures of smuggled gold in India reached a three-year high this year.
Government raised the import duty on the precious metal.
So-called grey market operators try to avoid the import duties by selling gold at discounts to market prices.
At least seven travellers, five men and two women, were arrested in the seizures that were made on Friday.
The gold was seized from a passenger who arrived at the Lucknow Airport in Uttar Pradesh at around 3 am from Muscat.
The accused was nabbed from Amby Valley City, Lonavala, Pune while attending a wedding function.
Chennai Air Customs seized over 5 kg gold foils
The gold foils were hidden in laptops and tabs
Five people were arrested
The man was arrested after the alert CISF officials noticed the presence of metal inside the rectal cavity of a passenger while frisking him at the airport. Subsequently, four packets of yellow metal paste, weighing about 909.68 gm, were recovered, the CISF said.
Chennai airport customs officials caught two passengers smuggling gold
Over 1.5 kg gold worth Rs 66 lakh was seized
The gold was hidden in a hammer and a mirror
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