Chennai: Officials of the Customs Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) have seized 2.88 kg gold worth Rs 1.32 crores and arrested three passengers, who arrived from Dubai at the international airport here.
A release from the office of the Commissioner of Customs said, based on specific intelligence that gold was likely to be smuggled from Dubai, two passengers of Chennai and one of Ramanathapuram, who had arrived from Dubai by two separate flights, were intercepted.
On persistent questioning they confessed to carrying gold paste bundles concealed in rectum. On their personal search 12 bundles(four each) of gold paste were recovered from their rectum from which 2.77 kg gold was recovered after extraction.
Three gold bits weighing 116 gms were also recovered from their pant pockets (one each).
In all, 2.88 kg gold of 24 k purity valued at Rs 1.32 crore was recovered and seized under the Customs Act, 1962. All three have been arrested.
Further investigation is under progress.