Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

So what?  An airport staff member actively facilitating smuggling, not just a passenger concealment trick, points to an insider-compromise vulnerability at a major transit hub that customs authorities elsewhere should treat as a template threat, not a one-off. The Dubai-Bangkok-Malé transit pattern also confirms gold smuggling into India is increasingly routed through third-country layovers designed to obscure the true country of origin, a workaround worth flagging to partner customs services along those same transit points.