A man attempted to board a plane in Argentina with approximately 250 poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage, each carefully labelled with its Latin name.

Czech citizen Karel Abelovsky, 51, was on the way to Spain when airport officials made him open his luggage at Buenos Aires international airport after police recognize the reptiles in the X-ray scanner.

They detect 247 exotic and rare species in all, packed inside plastic containers, bags and even socks.

Authorities believe the Czech was a messenger for a criminal organization that smuggles exotic species whose exports are banned. Authorities said Abelovsky arrived in Argentina only days earlier and wouldn't have had time to collect all the animals.

Judge Marcelo Aguinsky believes the boa constrictors, poisonous pit vipers and coral snakes, lizards and spiders could have get away the cloth suitcase in the unpressurised cabin of the December 7 Iberia flight to Madrid, and maybe attacked people there or at his final destination in Prague, where antidotes for South American snakes aren't common, the source added.

Abelovsky was released on around $US2,500 ($A2,468) bail after surrendering his passport and is refusing to talk even though he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Abelovsky runs a Czech-website that offers reptiles for sale. A woman who responds the contact number given on the site said she was his wife but did not give her name and said only that her husband was normal.

Czech authorities have no information about Abelovsky, said Martina Kankova, spokeswoman for Czech customs administration. She said authorities have traced various people or broken rings of smugglers of several exotic animals in recent years, as well as turtles and parrots.

Czech television described before this year that in 2010, customs officials in the country detained 55 smugglers with dozens of exotic animals.

Most of the animals and bugs are being held under quarantine at the Buenos Aires Zoo, whereas some of the venomous snakes were sent to Argentina's national health institute, which has a high security department where scientists develop-antidotes using venom from snakes.

The species include lizards native to Mexico and snakes, spiders, snails and other species from northern Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Some were already dead in the bag, while others have succumbed to stress since next. Many were quite weak on arrival at the zoo, but the majority is still alive.

Two men were arrested by the custom officers at Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport for attempting to smuggle 44, 400 memory cards from Hong Kong. The incident occurs at midnight when the duo landed in a Jet Airways flight.

The duo has been recognized as Imran Abdul, 29 and Shakeeb Ghulam, 25. They were caught by the team of Air Intelligence Unit while they were departing through the green channel.

The accused had hid the memory cards in the washroom at the airport after they came to know that the custom officers were waiting for them. The officers retrieve memory cards after detaining Ghulam and Abdul.

"The accused are usual carriers and it was their routine to leave the baggage in the washroom so they can clear the green channel without any obstacle," said Additional Commissioner of Customs, Mahendra Pal.

Afterwards, officers came to know that it was their routine as they used to leave the baggage in the washroom and other person used to collect it from there. Throughout the questioning, the custom officers were shocked when they found out that person attached to their own department can be involved in the issue.

supposedly, the third person who was supposed to collect baggage from the washroom is a driver working with the custom department who has a pass to enter airport building. "Our investigations are on to discover if the driver is involved in the case or not. He has not been arrested up till now but the other two have been arrested who will be produced in the court on Friday," said a custom officer from the airport.