{"id":39478,"date":"2019-08-27T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T04:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39478"},"modified":"2019-08-27T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T04:34:14","slug":"malaysian-arrested-at-chennai-airport-with-6-5-kg-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39478","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian arrested at Chennai Airport with 6.5 kg of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Shakir Husain<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI, Aug&nbsp;27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; A Malaysian woman was arrested with smuggled gold worth 25 million rupees (US$349,358) at Chennai&#8217;s international airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian customs officials, acting on a tip-off, arrested the passenger on Sunday after they found 12 gold bars weighing 6.5 kg in her baggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 41-year-old&nbsp;told Air Intelligence Unit officials that the gold was to be delivered to an unknown person outside the airport, according to a customs press release on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K. Saravanan, consul-general of Malaysia in Chennai, told Bernama that local authorities are further investigating the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, a Malaysian man was arrested at Chennai airport in an attempt to smuggle diamonds worth US$318,462 (RM1.34 million) into India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, Aug&nbsp;27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; A Malaysian woman was arrested with smuggled gold worth 25 million rupees (US$349,358) at Chennai&#8217;s international airport. Indian customs officials, acting on a tip-off, arrested the passenger on Sunday after they found 12 gold bars weighing 6.5 kg in her baggage. The 41-year-old&nbsp;told Air Intelligence Unit officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":31854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}