Dubai flier caught with 64,500 Euros

MOHALI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Monday arrested a passenger after 64,500

Euros

(Rs 50.76 lakh) was recovered from him at the

Chandigarh international airport.

Navjeet Singh, 37, a resident of Nawanshahr was to board a

Dubai

flight when he was caught. On examination of his checked-in baggage, DRI seized the foreign currency concealed in a newspaper kept in lower bottom of the baggage. Navjeet works as salesman in a chemist shop and was to deliver the currency to a person in Dubai, said sources.

Sources said passengers have to declare the amount of foreign currency by filling the Currency Declaration Form (CDF). Sources said the passenger had not declared the possession of foreign currency prior to boarding the flight.