NEW DELHI: India customs seized 1,644kg gold at Kochi airport. The arrested smugglers have been identified as Subrahmani Murugavally, 50, Noor Mohammed Madheen, 54, and Alaudeen Mehraj Gam, 50, who had arrived by a Malindo flight from Kuala Lumpur at 04:30 am.
We took them into custody at the exit gate of the arrival hall on the basis of a tip-off. When asked whether they were carrying gold, initially they replied in the negative. Later, they revealed that they had gold concealed in their rectum,” Customs officials said.
The arrested were carrying around 500 gm of gold each in the form of bars and biscuits. Two days ago, the Customs officials had arrested two women from Malaysia with one kg of gold hidden in their rectum.In a separate incident, the Customs officials confiscated Saudi Riyals equivalent to `7 Lakh from Kasargod-native Mohammed Faisal, who was about to fly to Dubai by a SpiceJet flight.
