DRI seizes 8-kg gold at SVPI airport

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) claimed to have seized 8 kg of gold biscuits from a person who arrived at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI)  Airport in Ahmedabad on Sunday.

According to DRI Ahmedabad officials, a passenger was intercepted as he arrived on a Dubai flight to the airport.  The agency apprehended a duty-free shop staff at the airport who was allegedly supposed to receive the gold.

“ Acting on the intelligence DRI officers intercepted a passenger and recovered 8 kg of foreign origin gold worth 4.21 crore from the passenger‘s handbag. The passenger confessed that he had to hand over the smuggled gold to a person at the airport. Later, the receiver of the gold was identified as a staffer in duty-free shop at SVPI airport,” read a statement from the DRI.