Bengaluru: Officers of the Customs Air Intelligence Unit at the Kempegowda International Airport seized five cut pieces of gold biscuits from a passenger’s rectum in the early hours of Saturday. The biscuits that weighed about 330 grams were valued at about Rs 10 lakh.
The officials intercepted Vijay Ashok Kumar Wadhwani (37), a resident of Ulhasnagar, Thane in Maharashtra, who was traveling by Sri Lankan Airlines flight UL 173 from Colombo to Bengaluru.
Wadhwani, who is a high school dropout, was into textile business. He had made foreign trips on business visa earlier, but investigations are on to find out whether he had smuggled gold earlier, a senior police officer said.
He had purchased solid gold pieces wrapped in carbon sheets, insulated them before inserting into his rectum. This is the third such case detected by the custom officials over the last one week.
A 53-year-old woman from Hyderabad was caught with 1.17 kg of gold biscuits using a similar modus operandi on May10, while two youth from Bhatkal were caught on May 12 who had concealed 933.12 grams of gold biscuits in their rectum.
