Sri Lankan Navy foils major gold smuggling bid to India

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Navy has foiled a bid by two people to smuggle 6.94 kilogrammes of gold worth nearly 34.5 million Sri Lankan rupees to India in a fishing boat, officials said today.

Sri Lankan Navy yesterday arrested the two people from northern Jaffna peninsula's Madagal area as they were trying to smuggle the gold to India.

6.94 kilogrammes of gold worth nearly 34.5 million Sri Lankan rupees was seized from them.

The suspects were attempting to transfer the stock of gold by means of a dinghy, a navy statement said.

The items were handed over to Sri Lanka Customs in Jaffna for further investigations, it said.