Chinese man with 1 kg gold concealed in rectum arrested
Kathmandu: Alert security personnel in Kathmandu airport pounced on a Chinese man who they noticed was walking suspiciously. The man was arrested for concealing one kg gold in his rectum.
Security personnel at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) arrested Chinese national Sa Luitui, 22, last week after an X-ray machine detected the metal in his body during security screening at a walk through gate of the arrival point. He had landed on a Tibet Air flight from China.
Police suspected that something was wrong with the man after he was spotted behaving suspiciously and walking in a peculiar way, the Himalayan Times reported.
When quizzed, the Chinese admitted to concealing gold in his rectum.
Police, with the help of doctors at the Sinamangal-based KMC Hospital, removed the contraband which he had placed inside a condom with its part outside so that he could pull it out easily after reaching his destination.
The airport has reported three such cases of gold smuggling earlier.
Last week, two other Chinese nationals were arrested with eight kilograms of undeclared gold being smuggled via the airport.
Police said smugglers were changing their modus operandi for smuggling gold through Tribhuvan International Airport.
Concealing gold in the rectum, battery box, laptop, baggage, air-filter of vehicle, cargo trucks and inner sole of shoes are some ways adopted by smugglers.
Smugglers also mould gold into jewellery and wear them to outsmart security officials. (IANS)
$15 million Christmas tree at Spanish resort dazzles
Marbella: A Christmas tree adorned with gems and ornaments worth more than $15 million at a Spanish resort could be the costliest in the world, media reports said.
The tree has been put up at Kempinski Hotel Bahia in Marbella, which is nestled along Spain’s southern coast.
The hotel collaborated with fashion designer turned baker Debbie Wingham to create the Christmas tree which is said to be worth a whopping �11.9 million ($15.4 million) for display at the resort.
Wingham posted a video clipping of the tree in all its splendour on the social media with the caption: “I call it 1.3 mill as it has 1.1 million dollar bills which are 24 carat gold bills then the diamond is a 200k job, the case is glass, the chain that hangs the ornament is 24 carat gold too, its quite a popular one, many people asking about it!”
Apart from Art Deco-inspired decorations like martini glasses, perfume bottles and 3D-printed chocolate peacocks, lighting and baubles, every tree branch is adorned with diamonds in different colours, apart from some sapphires. (IANS)
