Kasaragod: Kasaragod Customs officers arrested a person, allegedly with gold worth Rs 75 lakh he tried to smuggle in from Dubai on Friday.

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The gold smuggled inside the bread-maker. Photo: Special Arrangement.

The arrested person has been identified as Mohammed Fahiz P M (33), a resident of Citizen Nagar in Kasaragod's Chengala grama panchayat.

"He works as an accountant in a construction company in Dubai and is coming home for vacation after a year," said P P Rajeev, Customs superintendent in Kasaragod.

Fahiz was acting as a carrier. His handlers bought him free air ticket and gave him Rs 35,000, said the officer.

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Fahiz landed at Kannur International Airport on Thursday. He managed to slip past the scanners and officials at the airport.

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The gold was ingeniously concealed in a metallic case used as the base of an electric bread-maker's rotating armature. Photo: Special Arrangement.

From Kannur, he boarded a train and got down at Kasaragod railway station, where the Customs officers were waiting for him. "We got specific information that Fahiz was smuggling in gold," said Rajeev.

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The gold was ingeniously concealed in a metallic case used as the base of an electric bread-maker's rotating armature, Rajeev said. The gold weighed 1.3kg. 

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The dismantled bread-maker, in which the gold was smuggled into the country. Photo: Special Arrangement.

In the past two years, Kasaragod Customs have seized 32kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 18 crore, the department said.

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