Overview

• Catering staffer A.A. Alvares was intercepted at CSMIA after spot profiling and found carrying four wax capsules of gold dust hidden in his socks
• On August 3–4, customs officers recovered 1.51 kg of gold dust and 5.027 kg of hydroponic cannabis worth a combined ₹6.41 crore from a transit passenger and an airport employee
• Alvares admitted in his recorded statement that he smuggled the gold dust for monetary consideration and is held under provisions of the Customs Act
• In Panvel, Maharashtra Excise officials seized foreign liquor valued at ₹13 lakh concealed as vehicle spare parts and arrested two suspects for suspected interstate smuggling
• The coordinated crackdown leveraged intelligence leads, profiling and the Customs and NDPS Acts to expose insider collusion and sophisticated concealment at Mumbai’s transport hubs