Coimbatore: Gold worth over Rs 39 lakh has been seized from a passenger who arrived here from Sharjah by an Air Arabia flight, officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) said on Monday.
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Based on the information, Jamshid of Kozhikode was stopped and his baggage checked after he landed here on March 23. The check yielded 1,200 gm of gold hidden in a coffee-maker, a DRI press release said.
Jamshid is believed to have confessed to his involvement in a gold-smuggling racket for a commission. He was arrested and later released on bail.