He turned his rectum into a gold mine.
Indian authorities intercepted a man smuggling nearly a kilogram of gold paste inside his body at an airport in the northeastern state of Manipur.
“Mohammed Shereef alleged that he merely carried the gold and did not own it, an officer told The Independent.
Mr Shereef was travelling from the Imphal airport to the country’s capital New Delhi, when an official with India’s Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) found the presence of metal in his body while frisking him during the pre-embarkation security check.
The man was taken to a medical examination room after initial interrogation. An X-ray of his abdomen showed that he was concealing “some metallic items in a body cavity.”…
He allegedly confessed to carrying gold in the form of paste inside his rectum, after which the agency recovered four packets of yellow metal paste that weighed about 909.68g. Its value is around Rs 4.2mn (approximately £41,800), the CISF said.
The CISF handed Mr Shereef over to the airport customs department of Imphal for further interrogation. He remained in their custody for 24 hours and was released on bail on Tuesday.”
The New York Post reports that this is apart of a new gold smuggling trend:
"it comes after a passenger seen walking oddly was caught at the Kannur Airport in Kerala, India, with 2 pounds of gold bullion up his butt in (last) October.
He had allegedly hidden the nuggets, worth roughly $60,000, in an attempt to avoid paying taxes on them, authorities said at the time.
In March, a traveler known only as Rayees was also arrested at the Kannur Airport for allegedly smuggling 1.2 pounds of gold paste in his rectum, according to the local outlet daijiworld.com…
A couple from Sharjah was also recently busted at the same airport with a total of 6.5 pounds of gold paste hidden in an unspecified body part, authorities said.
And in August, officials at the airport found $18,800 worth of gold paste a passenger had painted onto the inside of trousers to evade authorities, according to the Hindustan Times."