Mumbai: 3.35kg of gold worth ₹2.67 crore was seized by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) while it was allegedly smuggled from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in an operation conducted in Mumbai airport.
A customer service executive at the airport and a member of a private ground-handling staff were arrested for their alleged involvement in the smuggling, said DRI sources.
The agency had initiated an operation based on intelligence reports of two people who were involved in gold smuggling through the Mumbai airport. After conducting necessary checks, a team of DRI officers intercepted the customer service executive at one of the exit gates of the airport. The executive was searched upon suspicion, leading to two packets of 3,350 grams of gold being recovered. The packets contained gold in paste form, which was meant to avoid detection, agency sources said.
