Mumbai: In two separate operations, officials of the air intelligence unit (AIU) on Saturday and Sunday arrested an Indian and three Kenyans for allegedly smuggling gold to India and seized the smuggled gold worth Rs 5.84 crore from them. In the first case, the AIU officials intercepted a Mumbai resident Amit Jain (46) who had arrived at the CSMT airport from Dubai. During the personal search, the officials recovered 24 KT 44 bars of gold. The total bars weighed 5,127 grams and were worth Rs 3.24 crore. Jain told officials that he had purchased the gold from Dubai and wanted to sell it in the local market in India to make profit. In another operation, three Kenyans_ Samira Abdi (37), Feiza Hassan (25) and Fardowsa Abdi (30) _ who arrived at CSMT airport from Addis Ababa, approached the red channel counter in arrival hall, Terminal 2, stating that they wanted to declare the gold items which they were carrying. In the declaration from, they mentioned the total quantity of gold as 2.540 kg. However, it was found that the gold weight was in excess of what they declared. Mateen Hafeez

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