{"id":52838,"date":"2013-11-22T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=52838"},"modified":"2013-11-22T01:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:15:24","slug":"these-smugglers-wont-be-feeling-quite-so-flush-stash-of-gold-bars-worth-700000-found-in-airplane-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=52838","title":{"rendered":"These smugglers won&#8217;t be feeling quite so flush: Stash of gold bars worth \u00a3700,000 found in airplane toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/24-bars-of-gold-at-Airport-in-Kolkata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-52836\" alt=\"\u056f\u0561\u056c\u056f\u0561\u0569\u0561, \u0578\u057d\u056f\u0565 \u057d\u0561\u056c\u056b\u056f\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/24-bars-of-gold-at-Airport-in-Kolkata.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/24-bars-of-gold-at-Airport-in-Kolkata.jpg 636w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/24-bars-of-gold-at-Airport-in-Kolkata-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/24-bars-of-gold-at-Airport-in-Kolkata-315x300.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cleaners working on an aircraft in eastern India have found 24 gold bars worth more than \u00a3620,000 hidden in a toilet compartment &#8211; the latest in a series of smuggling attempts uncovered at the country&#8217;s airports.<\/p>\n<p>The cleaners had boarded the Jet Airways plane at Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) airport on Tuesday after it had travelled from the eastern city of Patna.<\/p>\n<p>It had earlier been flying on international routes that included the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Smugglers have been using a loophole in India&#8217;s flight schedules to attempt getting gold into the country without having to declare it to customs officials.<\/p>\n<p>The gold is secretly stashed in an aircraft toilet at its international point of departure, where it remains when the plane lands at an Indian city.<\/p>\n<p>Because that particular aircraft is then used to continue on as a domestic flight, a new passenger picks up the gold on the domestic leg and leaves the plane when it lands, knowing that there will be no customs checks.<\/p>\n<p>India, which rivals China as the world&#8217;s biggest gold consumer, has seen a rise in smuggling after import duties were increased three times this year to try to dampen demand for the precious metal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Cleaners working on an aircraft in eastern India have found 24 gold bars worth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}