New Delhi: Foreign currency worth Rs 3.21 crore recovered from Jet Airways crew member

Foreign currency worth  Rs 3.21 crore was recovered from a Jet Airways staff member at the New Delhi Airport on Monday. 

The DRI officials received the tip-off from the special intelligence sources and recovered the cash of $4,80,200 from a female crew member of the Jet Airways flight from New Delhi-Hong Kong. The cash was recovered from the crew member's luggage wrapped in aluminium foil.

The staff member and the alleged supplier have been arrested and the investigation is still underway.

Meanwhile, Jet Airways issued a statement saying the airline will take further action against the employee.

During an inspection by DRI team a large sum of foreign currency was recovered from an employee of the airline.The employee has been taken into custody. Based on the investigations and inputs from law enforcement agencies, the airline will take further action: Jet Airways

— ANI (@ANI) January 8, 2018

Last year in August, two passengers were arrested at Pune airport for trying to smuggle out foreign currency worth Rs 1.29 crore by hiding them in hotboxes containing 'upma'. 
The man was scheduled to fly to Dubai with hot cases full of upma but he was carrying extra cargo.

During the security check, an immigration officer stopped them on suspicious grounds. The report suggests that the documents he carried were not authentic. So, the immigration officer immediately informed the airport authorities. The documents of the man identified him as Nishant Y and the security officials ordered to check his check-in luggage. 

The luggage contained heavy hot cases. The officials found it extremely strange for cases full of upma to be weigh so much. On checking, the foreign currency worth Rs 1.29 crore was recovered by the officials.