The Air Intelligence Unit of Mumbai Customs arrested four people for smuggling crude gold worth Rs 1.86 crore, from Bangkok on Sunday. They were caught before smuggling it to Delhi. One of them had brought the gold from Bangkok and given it to the other three at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

On October 6, officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) got information that crude gold was to be smuggled to Mumbai from Bangkok. One of them, Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Haryana, had arrived from Bangkok by Jet Airways flight no. 9W069 and was going to Dubai by Jet Airways flight no. 9W558 the same day. "At the toilet near the departure lounge of the airport, Rakesh Kumar handed over the gold to three persons," said an officer from Mumbai Customs.