Etihad Airways Officer Arrested For Smuggling Gold to India
A passenger and an Etihad Airways officer was arrested while trying to smuggle gold at the Mumbai airport.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Mumbai Customs today arrested a security officer of Etihad Airways on charges of gold smuggling from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport .
We have arrested officer Deepak Golani and he will be produced in the court tomorrow.
—Milind Lanjewar, Additional Commissioner of Customs.
This was the 18th case this financial year where an airport staff was held. AIU officials said that they initially intercepted a passenger Sunil Jagwani who arrived from Abu Dhabi this morning and recovered 1348 grams of gold bars and biscuits valued at Rs 33.08 lakhs, concealed inside cigarette packets.
Jagwani was caught while he was handing the gold over to Golani. The duo was later arrested.
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