Goa Customs seize gold worth Rs 34.7 lakh abandoned on plane
- | Saturday | 29th April, 2017
Panaji/Vasco: Continuing to crack down on attempts to smuggle gold through Goa International Airport, the commissionerate of customs on Friday foiled an attempt by unknown individuals to smuggle 11 gold bars worth Rs 34.74 lakh. We informed customs officials at Bengaluru and his bags were checked there but nothing was found," commissioner of central excise and customs K Anpazhakan said.In April itself, gold worth Rs 66.24 lakh, weighing 2.4kg was seized at Goa International Airport. The passenger under whose seat the gold bars were found claimed ignorance about the smuggled gold. This is the seventh seizure by Goa customs in April 2017," an official said.According to the officials, the air intelligence unit has seized, totally, gold weighing 2.4kg and valued at Rs 66.24 lakh along with foreign and Indian currency equivalent to Rs 40.26 lakh. Though it was under his seat, we have called it abandoned because we did not find it on his person.
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