TAMIL NADU: Indian Customs has seized five kg illicit gold worth of Rs 1.26 and Rs. 2 lakh from Mohamed Khan, 41, at the Coimbatore airport here the other day.
This is the biggest gold seizure at the Coimbatore International Airport.
Khan, belonging to Pudukottai district, is an engineering graduate and frequently travels abroad.
Based on a tip-off, the Customs officials checked his baggage and found four gold bars each weighing one kg and 10 bars each weighing 100 gm wrapped in a denim cloth and kept in a trolley bag. He also had Rs. 2 lakh in cash with him.
“He might have been asked to deliver the gold to someone here,” Mr. Kumaresh said. Duty evasion amounts to Rs. 13 lakh to Rs. 14 lakh.
Mr. Kumaresh said that the Customs officials had seized 12.4 kg gold in 10 different cases in 2014.
