Two Mumbai airport officials held for helping a smuggler
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Two officials of the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport were arrested for allegedly helping a smuggler to transport around 10,000 memory cards, estimated to be worth around Rs 20 lakh, Customs officials said today.
On-duty airport managers Mahesh Bamane and Rakshit Kapoor were arrested on Monday night along with Mohammed Sayyed Hanif, who tried to smuggle in the memory cards, they said.
The arrests were made after Hanif was apprehended by the sleuths when he was passing through the Green Channel carrying the bag containing the memory cards.
According to sources, Customs officials had laid a trap at 2B terminal for Hanif who had landed here from Hong Kong on a Thai Airways flight.
During his interrogation, Hanif revealed that he was supposed to drop the bag containing memory cards in a dustbin from where Bamne would have carried it outside the airport.
However, Hanif could not dump the bag as planned due to security and had to carry it along with him.
Bamane helped Hanif by taking him to other terminal instead of 2B terminal where all other passengers were heading to.
Sources said, Kapoor was nabbed after his role in the racket surfaced following Bamne's arrest.
All three have been arrested and released on bail.
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