"gold-smuggling"

According to the custom officials, two passengers who arrived from Kuwait and Sharjah were smuggling the gold by concealing in undergarments

CISF arrested a man at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here for smuggling 1,597 gm gold

The passenger who arrived by a flight from Dubai via Muscat had concealed two gold rods weighing around 224 grams in the handle of a trolley bag

The accused who arrived from Bangkok to Bengaluru by Indigo flight, concealed in his slippers 1.2 kg gold.

Air India Express said the cabin crew of Bahrain-Kozhikode-Kochi flight was apprehended by the Customs sleuths has been placed on suspension with immediate effect.

Hyderabad: Unidentified persons, allegedly members of a gold smuggling gang kidnapped, confined and beat up four persons at King’s Colony in Shastripuram in Mailardevpally. The gang, which is yet to be identified, had about a fortnight ago, sent three youngsters identified as Shahbaaz, Aiyaz and Fahad on a trip to Dubai, with a plan to […]

Hyderabad: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 2.2 kilograms of gold from a person, who was employed with a catering company engaged in serving food in aircrafts. Acting on a tip off, the DRI Hyderabad unit team caught the person while he was carrying two gold bars weighing one kilogram each and another two […]

Hyderabad: A man reaching the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Sunday was nabbed by the Hyderabad Customs after nine iPhone 13 phones, valued at Rs.8.37 lakh, were found in his possession. According to Customs officials, the man, who reached the RGIA by the Air Arabia G9-458 flight from Sharjah, was found to be carrying the […]

Hyderabad: With the Covid-19 pandemic scare beginning to fade away, gold smugglers have once again turned active and are trying to smuggle in the precious yellow metal from Gulf countries to Hyderabad city from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad. Smugglers seem to have reactivated their contacts and sneaking in gold from Gulf countries […]

The searches were conducted at the residences of five accused -- Mohamed Aslam, Abdul Latheef, Nazarudheen Sha, Ramzan P and Muhammed Mansoor.

Sivasankar, arrested by the agency on October 28, was earlier sent to seven day custody of the ED.

The matter had come to light after 30 kg gold worth Rs 14.82 crores smuggled in a consignment camouflaged as diplomatic baggage was busted in Thiruvananthapuram.