The gold smugglers are innovating to find new ways to smuggle the yellow metal. The officers of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) were surprised to discover four biscuits of gold weighing around 1.45 kg hidden inside a mobile phone shell in a wash room at Delhi’s IGI airport.
‘A flyer noticed a packet at around 7.45 am on Monday inside a dustbin in wash room number 20 at terminal -3 of the airport,’ said a senior officer of CISF. The incident put the entire security system on high alert and the wash room was immediately evacuated for testing of any explosives inside the packet. ‘We immediately alerted our teams who conducted an explosive vapour detector (EVD) test to make it sure that the unidentified wrapper would not be an explosive,’ he added.
After the confirmation that the wrapped packet did not have any explosives, it was handed over to the custom officers for further investigation. The packet was opened in the presence of a team of custom officers and it had a mobile phone inside it. ‘We were surprised to see that the mobile did not have battery and vital parts but golden pieces in cuboid form,’ informed the officer. He further added that it’s new trend of gold smuggling using empty mobile cabinet to hide gold.
‘We are examining the CCTV footage of the that particular area and enquiring from the housekeeping staff and other people who were deployed there on that particular time,’ said the CISF official on the condition of anonymity.
Earlier on March 9 this year, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) authority at IGI airport in Delhi arrested a man who was travelling from Kolkata to Delhi and was carrying around approximately 10-kg gold worth Rs 3 crore in his luggage bag.
‘A flyer noticed a packet at around 7.45 am on Monday inside a dustbin in wash room number 20 at terminal -3 of the airport,’ said a senior officer of CISF. The incident put the entire security system on high alert and the wash room was immediately evacuated for testing of any explosives inside the packet. ‘We immediately alerted our teams who conducted an explosive vapour detector (EVD) test to make it sure that the unidentified wrapper would not be an explosive,’ he added.
After the confirmation that the wrapped packet did not have any explosives, it was handed over to the custom officers for further investigation. The packet was opened in the presence of a team of custom officers and it had a mobile phone inside it. ‘We were surprised to see that the mobile did not have battery and vital parts but golden pieces in cuboid form,’ informed the officer. He further added that it’s new trend of gold smuggling using empty mobile cabinet to hide gold.
‘We are examining the CCTV footage of the that particular area and enquiring from the housekeeping staff and other people who were deployed there on that particular time,’ said the CISF official on the condition of anonymity.
Earlier on March 9 this year, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) authority at IGI airport in Delhi arrested a man who was travelling from Kolkata to Delhi and was carrying around approximately 10-kg gold worth Rs 3 crore in his luggage bag.