Customs department on late Tuesday recovered gold weighing over 500 grams, estimated to be worth about Rs 25. 75 lakhs, from a passenger at Cochin International Airport in Kerala, officials said.
Customs officials seized 1329 g of gold paste worth Rs 81.6 lakh at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Hyderabad on Sunday, informed the officials.
"Based on pax profiling by Customs, a male pax who arrived on Saturday vide Flight no 6E-1484 (Dubai to Hyderabad) has been intercepted by the officers of Customs Air Intelligence unit of Hyderabad Customs, RGIA," the official said.
Officials of Andhra Pradesh Police detained four persons and seized gold biscuits worth over Rs 2.5 crores in Tirupathi district from their possession, police said on Thursday.
Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs Department has seized 3038.79 grams of gold worth Rs 1.4 crores at Kochi airport in two instances, said a statement on Wednesday.
Air Customs Intelligence officials have seized 3.5 kg of gold worth around Rs 2 crore, which was tried to be smuggled through Kozhikode Airport in Karirpur on Thursday night in four different cases.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Hyderabad Customs department intercepted a male passenger arriving from Dubai and recovered two gold rods worth Rs 13.72 lakh at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport on Thursday.
During the examination of the said passenger, 4 capsules of gold in a compound form totally weighing 1063 grams concealed inside his body were recovered and seized.
In a joint operation, teams of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Customs arrested two persons and seized 40 pieces of gold worth Rs 2.82 crore along the India-Bangladesh border.
"During the examination of the said passenger, grey-coloured trunk underwear weighing 649.05-gram gold in paste form was seized," the customs official said.