Man busted smuggling $40k of gold under wig and inside rectum.
A man was arrested by customs officials at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Monday after he was caught trying to smuggle melted-down gold worth around 3,055,000 Indian Rupees ($39,947), The Times of India reported.
The man, who has not been identified, concealed the gold in a pouch hidden beneath a wig he was wearing, a customs official said, per The Times of India.
He also had two capsule-shaped pouches of gold lodged inside his rectum, the customs official added, per the newspaper.
A video, shared by Delhi Customs, shows the wig being cut away to reveal a pouch of melted gold glued to the top of his bald head.
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I’ll pass on the rectum video.
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What a rookie move
I know some guys that do high value security transportation here in Europe, and they told me once during a ”hey, did you know?” session. One of them was bringing a large group of gold coins somewhere from Switzerland, where the scanners are state of the art, and he told the person at the monitor his valise was very heavy. The security person looked and commented, ”yes, it’s heavy, but it’s not dangerous.” Some scanners are so sophisticated, they can detect WHICH metal any object is composed of. I have heard that India has a preference for old British gold sovereigns minted under Edward VII, which would be coins dated 1902-1910, but they are only 91.7% pure, and maybe the 8.3% copper in the alloy WOULD be enough to set off a metal detector if there were enough of them. No idea. In general, I don’t tend to travel with my pockets full of British sovereigns from Edward VII. Almost never, in fact 
