Catering Staff Entered Flights With Food, Left With Gold

April 9, 2015
Two employees of Skygourmet Flight Kitchen planned to use a clever MO to leave with food carts laden with gold bars .

In a case that is testament both to the ingenuity of people smuggling gold into the country and the tenacity of those tasked with apprehending them, officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) nabbed four smugglers and seized gold worth Rs 1.65 crore in a three-hour operation packed with edge-of-the-seat action yesterday.

The confessions of two employees of Skygourmet Flight Kitchen and two men who were supposed to receive the consignments have revealed that they were part of a well-oiled machine, which relied on clever and meticulous planning to smuggle gold into the country. The catering company’s employees admitted that they had successfully cleared at least 30 smuggled gold consignments.

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