Mumbai, 10 Apr

(HS): The Department of Revenue Intelligence team seized gold worth Rs 37.74

crore at Mumbai Airport. The department arrested 24 foreign women in illegal passion

of 29.37 kg of gold.

The investigating

officer said on Friday that a group of women from Nairobi came to Mumbai. Based

in intelligence information the 24 women coming from Nairobi were stopped for

checking, to which they opposed. The security personnel checked the luggage and

clothes to find 25.1 kg gold bars and 4.27 kg gold jewellery.

The women were

trained to conceal the smuggled gold and to skip detection of smuggling. The

DRI arrested 24 women and initiated enquiry ito the bigger racket connected to

the gold smuggling.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar