Customs arrests 5 passengers at Mumbai airport smuggling Rs 50 crore worth Marijuana from Bangkok

“To hoodwink the information unit the narcotic substances were concealed wrong vacuum sealed transparent integrative packets and kept successful trolley bags carried by the passengers. After contrabands were recovered from their belongings, the 5 passengers were placed nether apprehension nether the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985,” the Customs officials said.

Customs officials fishy that the accused passengers allegedly smuggled the contraband arsenic bearer for the smuggler’s radical successful lieu of hefty commission.

The investigators are besides checking if they person likewise travelled internationally to indulge successful smuggling signifier successful the past.

Besides narcotics, the customs section during the aforesaid play besides carried retired different operations astatine the metropolis airdrome and intercepted 2 passengers arriving from Riyadh and Muscat respectively and recovered 24 KT Gold rods and 24 KT Gold particulate successful wax respectively having full nett value of 863 grams provisionally valued astatine Rs 64.50 Lakh successful 2 abstracted cases. The golden particulate was concealed wrong the assemblage cavity of the passenger, the customs section said

Similarly, 2 much passengers, who arrived from Dubai, were intercepted and 24 KT Gold Dust successful Wax signifier worthy Rs 90.42 Lakh was seized.

Also, the bureau connected the ground of circumstantial input, connected Friday intercepted a rider departing to Bangkok and recovered diamonds worthy Rs 93.85 Lakh from him. The diamonds were concealed wrong the assemblage cavity of the passenger, who was aboriginal charged with applicable charges nether the Customs Act, customs authoritative said.