Three held for smuggling forex

After confirming the intelligence information, officials of DRI8217;s Hyderabad unit identified the passenger who had already checked in his baggage and was waiting to board flight A1-424 to Singapore.

Officials immediately retrieved the checked-in baggage and found the currency concealed in it, stacked in such a manner that the scanning done by the airport staff did not reveal the concealment.

On interrogation, the passenger admitted that the foreign currency was sentto him by an operator at Chennai for taking it out of the country. In a swift follow-up action, DRI officers located the main operator in Chennai and the person who carried the currency from Chennai to here and handed it over to the passenger.