Hyderabad: A gold smuggler, who had involved two accused GMR security staff, confessed to the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence sleuths that the duo helped in smuggling of around 120 kg of gold worth Rs 32 crore so far from Dubai by passing customs and sneaking out of the airport through tightly secured exit and entry points.
Sources in DRI revealed that Moha-mmed Mazhar Ali arrested on Monday confessed that he had smuggled around 120 kg of gold with the help of GMR security staff. The three accused Mazhar Ali, GMR employees K. Bhaskar Reddy and P. Raminaidu were sent to judicial remand till June 9. A source in DRI said, “Their modus operandi was sophisticated.
Mazhar Ali has a contact in Dubai who sent the gold. He got the photograph of the passengers and flight details on Whatsapp and forwarded it to Bhaskar Reddy and Raminaidu. Mazhar used to wait in the airport parking area. Either of the two security staff waited at the aerobridge and collected the gold and put them in the inner pocket of their security suit. They came out through exit point guarded by CISF, unstopped. In the parking lot they handed it over to Mazhar Ali.”
DRI found that one of the accused security staff used to monitor CCTV cameras and inform the other one who collected the gold regarding position of DRI men in the airport. “We are checking if there are any other GMR staff hand in glove with them.” DRI said most of the GMR security staff managed to get all area entry and exit passes whereas the DRI is only given five passes despite repeated requests to the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security of India.
