Rs. 11 lakh seized from air passengers in Chennai
Customs authorities seized Rs.11 lakh from 11 passengers bound for Singapore on Air India Express flight IX 682 here on Saturday morning.
The Air Intelligence Unit searched their luggage and found brown covers containing Rs.1 lakh in each of the passenger’s bags. Export of Indian currency in excess of Rs.5,000 is illegal under the Foreign Exchange Management Regulations (2000).
C. Rajan, Commissioner of Customs (Airport), stated in a press release that the passengers had not declared the currency and were not in possession of legal documents to carry money out of the country.
Many of them were unaware of the contents of the brown covers they had been asked to hand over to their employers in Singapore by a Chennai-based manpower recruiting agency.
The passengers, all of them in their early twenties, hailed from various parts of Tamil Nadu.
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