Policeman smuggled 1500 kgs of gold

By Vijay Kumar

IT is reported that a Police Constable working in the immigration wing at Cochin International airport had smuggled out about 1500 kgs of gold valued at Rs. 400 crores and earned a booty of about Rs. 8 crores in the process, in a span of 18 months.

His modus operandi: Some passengers, who were actually gold carriers, would leave the smuggled gold bars in the toilet at the immigration hall. The flush tank is a popular location. Later, the constable would pick it up from the toilet. He had a belt, which had special pockets to conceal the gold. He would deposit the smuggled gold in his car parked outside the airport. Then his brother would come in another car and go back with the gold filled car to his home where his father would be waiting to collect the gold to sell it in the local market.The family business ran into rough weather with the arrest of the cop.