A woman who was trying to smuggle £650,000 of gold bars through Heathrow to India in her hand luggage for organised criminals has had them seized by the National Crime Agency (NCA).

The female smuggler was transiting through the airport after arriving on a plane from Singapore and was attempting to take the 15 gold bars on an onward flight to Chennai.

She claimed she was taking transporting the gold for a jeweller in Singapore to another one in India.

But her bars were seized after law enforcers and Border Force staff decided that they were instead being carried on behalf of money laundering network working for organized criminals.

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They noted that she had no explanation for her strange routing via London when she could have traveled directly from Singapore to India much quicker and believed that she was instead trying to evade detection by Indian customs officials by disguising her original departure point.

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