Tiruchi: Officials from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have arrested and seized a ‘huge quantity’ of gold from two people who arrived at the Trichy international airport from Singapore.
Reports said that acting on a tip off that huge quantity of gold was being smuggled from Singapore to Tiruchy, the DRI officials kept watch on passengers arriving at the airport.
The officials conducted a check of baggage belonging to the passengers of Air India Express and found that a private airways staff, who was later identified as a resident of Valasaravakkam in Chennai, was handing over two kg gold in the form of paste to a Nagapattinam man.
Soon the officials seized the gold worth Rs 1 crore and both were secured. Further investigations are on.