Plane passenger hides gold in rectum to avoid paying tax, arrested


DUBAI (ANN): An airline passenger was arrested after hiding pieces of gold in his rectum to avoid paying tax upon landing at an airport in India.

Police seized the man (name withheld) when he arrived in Kannur International Airport from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Officers from the Air Intelligence Unit extracted the gold from him, as per the Customs Preventive Commissionerate’s Twitter post on Oct. 13.

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