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One passenger, identified as Samseer Ali, boarded the flight from Dubai wearing the green sandals with the gold paste hidden in the sole. BENGALURU: In yet another novel method of smuggling, passengers flew in with gold ground into a paste and concealed inside sandals to avoid detection by customs officials. However, following passenger profiling, customs sleuths found the two acting in a suspicious manner and detained them.On questioning, they revealed they were smuggling gold, following which the sleuths seized the sandals Faris was wearing and cut them open to discover 1.3kg of gold paste. The smuggled gold crafted into crude jewellery was worn by the men when they were caught, sources added. When the aircraft reached Goa, his aide Salman Faris boarded the flight and sat next to Ali..