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CHENNAI: Customs officials at Chennai international airport have in the recent past come across many cases where carriers concealed gold inside rectums, shoes and in one case, in a sanitary napkin.On Wednesday, they were in for a surprise when they recovered two gold bars concealed in specially made cavities inside the bra of a Thai national. Both had visited Chennai for the first time.On Thursday, in a similar case, customs officials seized 365gm of gold worth Rs 12 lakh from a woman passenger. In November 2017, customs officials had found a man had concealed 100gm of heroin inside a condom. Padmavathi Pengaluru, 30, who had come from Kuwait on a Kuwait Airways flight KU 343 had concealed the gold in her undergarment. He was wearing it.Last month, customs officials in Mumbai discovered a modus operandi wherein a man who had two wives would ask them to conceal gold bars inside specially made bras..