Bengaluru: Mumbai man held with 26 lakh smuggled gold

BENGALURU: A passenger from Mumbai was nabbed with gold pieces worth over Rs 26 lakh, which he was trying to smuggle in through a domestic flight.
The man from Tamil Nadu was arrested on Wednesday after an IndiGo Airlines flight from Mumbai landed at Kempegowda International Airport.
Following information received by the Bengaluru unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence that the man was carrying smuggled foreign gold through a domestic flight, the agency alerted the Customs team at the KIA terminal.
Sleuths then started profiling the passengers something that is usually done for international arrivals.
They intercepted a man in his mid-30s and his bag had two pieces of gold biscuits, weighing 522 grams. He is suspected to be part of an international smuggling racket.