Chennai: Sleuths from the directorate of revenue intelligence on Sunday night seized 6 kg of gold, worth Rs 1.6 crore, smuggled by six air passengers who arrived at the domestic terminal by three different flights here.
The smugglers, after taking the gold from Myanmar, travel by road to Kolkata and Delhi and use domestic airlines to reach Chennai to dodge customs checks.
According to the DRI officials, the smugglers, travelling in pairs, arrived from Kolkata and Delhi. All the six belonged to the same gang and were found to be hiding gold biscuits in their rectum.
DRI said the sleuths, during a night-long operation, arrested Seeni Sabur Mohideen, Jawahar Ali, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, R. Nagoor Gani, J.S. Abdul Jaleel and M.M. Ibunu Thowfic.
The passengers had concealed two packages each consisting of smuggled gold wrapped in black insulation tape and inside again packed with two layers of carbon papers kept secretly in their rectum. Each pack had three biscuits and each person was carrying two such packs. Thus, a total of 36 biscuits weighing 6 kg were seized, the DRI official said. The arrested six confessed that they were smuggling gold from Myanmar through Moreh land border.
