A man and a woman have been arrested by DRI officials at the Kolkata airport for allegedly trying to smuggle out foreign currency by hiding it in their body cavities, according to an official statement issued.Acting on intelligence, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials intercepted two persons a man and a woman on Thursday.Euro currency notes valued at Rs 58 lakh were recovered from them and seized under provisions of the Customs Act, 1962.The DRI officers intercepted the duo when they were about to board the flight.The contraband was sourced from the Malkangiri area in Odisha and sent to various parts of the country, including Kolkata, it said.The foreign currency is illegally taken out towards making payments on account of smuggling of contraband like gold and other miscellaneous items that are illegally brought into India, it said.A detailed personal and baggage search was done but nothing incriminating was found at first, the statement issued by the DRI said. Euro currency notes valued at Rs 58 lakh were recovered from them and seized under provisions of the Customs Act, 1962.Thereafter, after intense
China wholesale Rubber Products questioning, the two persons admitted to carrying the foreign currency in their rectum and voluntarily ejected out the currency which had been rolled up and wrapped in a rubber, it said.
In another case, DRI on Saturday busted a major drug syndicate engaged in trafficking of ganja and arrested eight persons.The duo were slated to travel to Bangkok by an Indigo flight carrying the illegally acquired foreign currency.These two were slated to travel to Bangkok by an Indigo flight carrying the illegally acquired foreign currency, it said.Both the passengers have been arrested, the statement said.Kolkata is used as a stocking and redistribution-cum-consumption centre, the DRI said.Acting on a tip-off that a syndicate, based in Odisha, would be transporting narcotics and carrying the illegal contraband in a car going from Bhubaneshwar towards Kolkata, DRI sleuths got into action in the wee hours of Thursday.In a few cases in the past, rectum concealment has been used to smuggle and ferry gold biscuits, however, this is the first instance in Kolkata in the recent times where there has been an attempt to smuggle out foreign currency by hiding it in body cavity, the DRI said.Eight persons, travelling in two vehicles, were intercepted near the Dhulagarh area (on the Kolkata Khargapur highway) at 6am by DRI officers and about 120 kg of 'ganja' was seized from them, the statement said.
