JAIPUR: If customs officials go by usual conventions, gold smuggler can go scot-free as the smugglers have now brought in innovations in their modus operandi.
Customs officials have seized 650 gm of gold from a passenger who came from Dubai on Wednesday evening. After his interrogation and frisking the officials were stunned to see the things in which he had concealed the gold.
Honhar Singh, deputy commissioner of customs said that the activities of one of the passengers (he wished not to name him) were suspicious. “When we checked his baggage, initially we found a cookie box, mouth organ, measuring tape and rechargeable emergency light. There was nothing wrong. But when we started searching these items properly we were stunned the way gold was concealed in them,” said Singh.
“There was a cookie box in which gold was concealed below the aluminum foil, there was a mouth organ whose wires were made of gold, and there were measuring tapes in which gold was concealed. Not only that the most surprising element was hiding gold inside the battery of a rechargeable emergency light having full circuit,” said the deputy commissioner of customs on Thursday.
Officials said that the man was used as a carrier only as it was his first visit to Dubai. “He was pursuing nursing and had gone as a tourist. But, we will certainly investigate his sources,” he added.
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