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Officers of the Air Intelligence Unit of Goa Customs on Thursday seized gold in pouches from a passenger at the Dabolim airport.
According to a press note released by R Manohar, Commissioner of Customs Goa, the officers of Goa Customs headed by Deepak Gawai, Assistant Commissioner of Customs and under the supervision of T R Gajalakshmi, Additional Commissioner of Customs, Goa, intercepted one international passenger based on profiling, while performing duties on Thursday.
“The international passenger arrived by Oman Air (Flight WY-0207) on Thursday. A search of the passenger’s handbag resulted in recovery of 6 transparent plastic pouches containing brown colour substance in powder form having gold weighing 450 grams which was intended to smuggle the same by evading customs duty.”
“The value of the gold will be determined after extraction process,” the press note added.
The whole exercise was conducted under the guidance of R Manohar, Commissioner of Customs, and further investigation is in progress.
