A 26-year-old flight attendant in India took advantage of her position to smuggle gold, and actually stuffed nearly 1 kilogram of gold into her rectum.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, on May 28, 2024 local time, the Indian Tax Intelligence Department intercepted India Express Air flight IX714 at Kannur airport and found 960 grams of smuggled gold in the rectum of flight attendant Surabhi Khatun.
According to the preliminary investigation, Surabi is a native of Calcutta, India, and this time she tried to smuggle gold from Muscat to Kannur, but she was arrested as soon as she got off the plane due to an informant from an informed source.
Sources said that Surabi may have been involved in a number of gold smuggling cases and received commissions for successful smuggling.
India's Tax Intelligence Unit said that Surabi had identified certain people who had hired her to smuggle gold. After appearing in court, Surabi was held in a women's prison for 14 days.
According to reports, this is the first case in India in which an airline crew member was arrested for smuggling gold hidden inside the rectum.
India's Tax Intelligence Unit suspects that the case is linked to a gold smuggling syndicate in Kerala and is expanding its investigation into whether other flight attendants are involved.
In March 2023, another Air India Express crew member, Shafi Sharaf, was arrested on suspicion of smuggling more than 1.4 kilograms of gold through Cochin International Airport.