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Kerala: DRI officials seize 25 kgs of gold from passenger at Thiruvananthapuram Intl Airport

| @indiablooms | May 13, 2019, at 04:05 pm

Thiruvananthapuram, May 13 (UNI) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths seized 25 kgs of gold worth about Rs 8 crore from a passenger who arrived at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Monday.

The gold was seized from the passenger Sunil of Thirumala in this district. He arrived here from Oman by a flight in the morning, sources said.

The contraband gold was kept hidden in a bag in the form of gold biscuits.

This is the second major gold haul at the Airport wit in a fortnight.

On April 30, about 10 kgs of gold was seized from a contract employee at the 

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