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On May 4, customs personnel had seized 301gram of gold worth Rs 9.64 lakh from a passenger coming from Kuala Lumpur.On June 14, the Customs sleuths had seized gold weighing 355.12 grams worth Rs 11, 37,094 from a passenger, hailing from Kerala. The officials seized 690.5 grams of gold worth Rs 21, 89,043 from a passenger, who arrived at the city airport from Kuala Lumpur.The passenger, hailing from Chennai, arrived at the airport from Kuala Lumpur by Air Asia flight AK-31 in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. BHUBANESWAR: Officers of Air Intelligence unit of Customs at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) on Thursday foiled yet another attempt of smuggling of gold through Bhubaneswar airport . This passenger had hidden the gold in powder form inside his rectum.In the past four months, smuggled gold worth over Rs 2.5 crore has been seized by customs and officials of the DRI in and outside the airport. It was the largest such haul at the airport..