Actor Ranya Rao, who is in custody of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (Dri), revealed during the interrogation that it was the first time she smuggled gold from Dubai. The actor also revealed that she received phone calls from unknown numbers and claimed that she learned to hide gold from YouTube videos.
Rao, stepdaughter of Karnataka DGP K Ramaclandra Rao, was arrested from Bengaluru Airport while trying to smuggle 14.2 kg of gold worth RS 12.56 crore in the form of cookies tied to her body.
“I received a phone call from a foreign telephone number on 1 March. I had received phone calls from unknown foreign numbers in the last two weeks. I was instructed to go to Gate A on Terminal 3 from Dubai Airport. I was told to collect the gold on Dubai Airport and deliver in Bengaluru,” she said.
“This was the first time I smuggled gold from Dubai to Bengaluru. I have never brought or bought gold from Dubai,” Rao told her earlier statements to Dri officials in a U-turn.
Ranya Rao revealed that she bought crepe connections and scissors at the airport and attached the gold bars to her body in a toilet at the airport.
“The gold was in two plastic-covered packages. I attached the gold bars to my body on the plane toilet. I hurry the gold in my jeans and shoes. I learned how to do this from YouTube videos.”
However, she denied that she knew the identity of whom the caller or the instructor was. “I am not entirely sure who called me. The caller had an African-American accent, “she said.
“He handed the gold bars after a security check,” she told the income information officers and said he left immediately after he had handed her the gold bars. “I never met or saw him again. The man was about 6 feet long and fair skin, “she said.
RAO also voluntarily announced that she used the credit card of Jatin Vijay Kumar to book her ticket.
“I was instructed to deliver the gold bars to an unknown person,” she replied, when he was asked who should receive the smuggled gold in Bengaluru. She said that she was “told to go to the service roads after the toll gate of the airport” and “was supposed to place the gold in a Autorickshaw near the signal”, but was not “the number of the Autorickshaw.” “I was instructed to collect the gold from an unknown person and to deliver to another unknown person,” Rao told the Dri, when he was questioned about a smuggling ring. The Dri continued the investigation, although RAO did not give any details about the smuggling syndicate. DRI followed the syndicate members based on data from the telephone and laptop from Ranya.
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