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Mumbai businessman smuggles Rs 31 lakh gold in wig; arrested
Updated On: 08 May, 2019 02:52 PM IST | | Chaitraly Deshmukh
The man hid the gold in a wig which had a black belt and polythene bag in it; the person was

A picture of the wig used to smuggle gold. Pic/ Chaitraly Deshmukh
A Mumbai-based businessman had a bad hair day or rather, a bad wig day on Monday, when Customs officers detained him at Pune airport in order for smuggling gold worth Rs 31.13 lakh in it. The man was identified as Shahzad Baba Miya Momin, 34, from Null Bazaar.
Senior Inspector, Customs, Amzad Shaikh said, "Momin runs a fruit business in thie city of Mumbai and five days ago he had visited Dubai. On Monday at around 10 am, he returned to India travelling by an Air India flight number IX-212 at the Pune airport. We found his movements suspicious and then rank a check on his profile and then his belongings."
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