A total of 47.72kg of gold worth Rs 21.68 crore was smuggled with the assistance of health officials deployed at the airport as part of the state Covid surveillance team. Navaf, Naseef and Anshif, who were part of the Covid surveillance team at the airport, reportedly helped the carriers bring the smuggled gold out of the airport. Prime accused Zainul admitted to the customs that he had promised around 20% of profit from the sale of smuggled gold to his investors. “For 1kg of smuggled gold, the profit came up to Rs 4.5 lakh. Mahamood A S, who is the owner of Aramana Jewellers, would receive the smuggled gold and sell it to gold merchants in Mumbai after processing it.

Source: Indian Express October 22, 2021 07:00 UTC