Kenya Revenue Authority officials have intercepted gold worth Sh100 million at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
Gold bars weighing at least 32,255.50 grammes and an accompanying invoice of the amount were found on a 46-year-old Tanzanian man.
In a statement on Wednesday, the taxman said the suspect was arrested at the airport on February 16
following an alert by intelligence agents.
He was on a Precision Airlines plane from Mwanza via Kilimanjaro, and was heading to Dubai by Kenya Airways.
The unidentified man was apprehended by KRA customs officers and a team of security agencies based at the airport.
The gold bars were handed to KRA's Customs and Border Control Unit and investigations launched.
Last week, a Kenya Airways employee was arrested
in Mumbai, India,
with 23kg of
smuggled
gold bars worth more than Sh100 million.
According to the
, police found
Abdalla Said
hiding the bars
in his waist belt and knee caps.
Said 29, was arrested while trying
to check into a five-star hotel near the international airport.
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