[New Delhi]7 Young iPhone Smugglers Held at IGIA with 182 iPhones This Model Is To Be Launched India on October 16
Eager to cash in on the craze for iphones, seven youths were detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport with as many as 182 iPhone 6S + 6S Plus ahead of their India launch due this month.
These phones were seized recently from young people in their late 20s who had come from Hong Kong and Singapore on separate flights,
Acting on intelligence inputs, customs officials intercepted them and seized the iPhones.
as per Vinayak Azaad, Additional Commissioner, Customs,”All of them were carrying iPhone 6S and 6S Plus in their baggage.
Some of the youths were offered money to smuggle in the devices,
The US-based tech giant Apple will unveil its latest iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus in India on October 16.
The company has not disclosed the price of its new products for the Indian market.
Apple had sold over 13 million units of these phones on the first three days of the launch on September 25.
The new iPhone models were available for sale on September 25 across the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Singapore.
Incidentally, the seizure has been effected from the sector, that comprises Hong Kong and Singapore, infamous for gold smuggling.
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7 Young iPhone Smugglers Held at IGIA with 182 Devices
Smuggled Gold @ Rs 2.5 Crore seized at IGI Airport: Biggest Seizures
[New Delhi] Smuggled Gold @ Rs 2.5 Crore seized at IGI Airport:Customs Claims It Biggest Seizures
In one of the biggest seizures, customs officials today seized about 10 kg of gold worth over Rs 2.5 crore being smuggled into the country at India Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)
Two people, including a Chartered Accountant, have been arrested in three cases of gold smuggling.
[1]In the first incident, customs officials recovered over four kg of gold from a dustbin kept in the toilet of a Qatar airways plane.
“The flight arrived early morning today from Doha and while rummaging of the aircraft, 4.2 kg of unclaimed gold was recovered,” said Vinayak Azaad, Additional Commissioner of Customs at the airport.
The recovered gold is in form of 36 gold bars and valued at about Rs 1.09 crore,
[2]In another case, two Delhi-based persons – a Chartered Accountant and a lawyer, were intercepted by the Customs after their arrival from Dubai.
They were carrying gold 2.635 kg and 740 gm respectively, hidden in rods and couplings of trolley bags,
As per Authorities “The CA had taken a loan of Rs 1.5 cr from a bank, out of which, he spent Rs 60 lakh for gold smuggling,” .
In third instance, a Turkish passenger has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle in 2.6 kg of gold.
He had arrived from Istanbul and hid gold in belt buckles and wheels of trolley bag,
In all these cases, about 10 kg of gold worth Rs 2.64 crore has been seized.
It is one of the bigeest seizures of the yellow metal in recent times.
Turkish passenger and the CA have been arrested while the customs authorities are trying to find out the owner of the gold recovered from the Qatar airways plane.
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