Sri Lanka Customs officers have arrested a 41 year old Sri Lankan woman at the Jaffna International Airport for attempting to smuggle gold into the country. 

The suspect, a resident of Colombo 12, had arrived on a flight from Chennai.

She was found concealing two capsules containing what is suspected to be gold, weighing 1,002.2 grams, which had not been declared to Customs.

 Following an investigation, she was produced before the Mallakam Magistrate’s Court and remanded for 14 days.