5 kgs of gold seized at Noi Bai International Airport
Customs detected 353 violations by air |
According to initial information, at 23:00 hours on August 3, the Exit Luggage Customs Procedures Team of the Noi Bai International Airport Customs Branch inspectedthe luggage of a Japanese passenger who was exiting on Flight JL752 (Hanoi-NARITA), and found some metal products.
Through physical examination, this passenger was carrying 7 silver metal statues, total weight about 5kgs in his luggage, and he did not declare. According to claims from the Japanese foreigner these statues had been made of gold, value 16,500,000 JPG, equivalent to 3.2 billion vnd.
According to the Noi Bai International Airport Customs Branch, on the morning of August 4, the unit had sealed these statues and conductedsampling procedures to identify them as gold.Currently the investigation is ongoing.
From July 26 up to now, Customs forces have collaborated with other functional forces to detect 2 cases of gold transportation by air that were not declared.
Earlier, at 23:40 on July 26, the functional force found Ms Hoang Thi Ngoc Anh (born in 1982), a stewardess of Vỉetnam Airlines and Nguyen Ngoc Sang (born in 1986) with the support of Pham Duy Thuan (born in 1980) a technical worker who repairs aircraft of the Vietnam Airlines Engineering Company (VAECO) illegally exported more than 3kgs of gold (equivalent to more than 80 bars of gold).
The Police of Hanoi City issued an emergency arrest and custody order for Sang and Thuan. The case is being investigated by functional forces.
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