Gold in Chocolate Powder to Dollars in Pan Masala Pouch: The Bizarre but Failed Smuggling Techniques

The seizure of prohibited items at airports is fairly common. However, in the recent past, airport officials have been busting quite the unusual and bizarre ways in which items like drugs, money, arms, and gold are smuggled into the country.

Most recently, the Mumbai Airport Customs on Monday caught hold of an Indian passenger carrying 2.81 Kg cocaine worth Rs 28.10 Crore concealed in a duffle bag. A video of the bust went viral on social media, and showed the cocaine being hidden and sewed up in the lining of the duffle bag.

Here are some recent instances where a bust of prohibited items left everyone shocked:

• On Monday (January 9), a passenger was caught on the Kolkata airport with 40,000$ concealed in packets of ‘pan masala’. The passenger was headed to Bangkok but was busted by airport officials. When they searched his checked-in luggage, they found $40,000 (Rs 32,78,000) packed as two ten-dollar bills each inside the sachets, NDTV reported.
• In the latest case from Mumbai airport on Tuesday, reports suggest that the passenger was “honey-trapped” by someone he met on social media. Investigation has so far revealed that the passenger had carried the Cocaine in the duffle bag on being lured by a woman he met on Facebook, first with a job opportunity, and later through intimate conversations.
• The passenger carried the contraband from Addis Ababa, and the cocaine was concealed in cloth samples the passenger was carrying to Delhi. The passenger has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.

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