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		<title>Lucrative job offerings (graduation not required)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The poster says the best jobs in India are those of go-betweens, and cites a news report of an airport cleaner caught smuggling 4 kg of gold, with officials also caught helping smugglers.]]></description>
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<b>The best jobs to have in India are that of the &#8220;dalals&#8221; or the go-betweens.</b> You need not possess any skills and no investment is required. You just need to act as a bridge between two (or multiple) points of contact which sometimes help prevent jail-time for your contacts. There is a bit of risk (jail-time for yourself) but a little pain is tolerable when the gains are so considerable.</p>
<p><b>The mad gold rush continues in India and it will keep sweeping up poor people in its web of greed and deceit.</b><br />
&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br />
<i><b>A<br />
youth working as a cleaner at the international airport was caught by<br />
the Customs trying to smuggle out 4 kg gold valued at Rs 1.04 crore<br />
early on Sunday.</b></p>
<p> The accused, Yuvraj Solanki (21), who works<br />
for a housekeeping firm, was caught red-handed trying to haul a bag<br />
containing the gold bars from the toilet.</p>
<p> <b>&#8220;Solanki admitted<br />
that he had sneaked out of the airport with gold weighing 3 kg on two<br />
occasions earlier. The accused said he received Rs 1.2 lakh for the<br />
same,&#8221; said an official.</b></p>
<p> Earlier, two CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) officials were caught helping smugglers.</i></p>
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&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://inagist.com/all/463232916991246336/"><b>Link: http://inagist.com/all/463232916991246336/</b></a><br />
&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
regards</div>
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		<title>Whats App wins the (700 kg) gold medal</title>
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Is there anything that Whats App cant do? It has opened glorious new vistas, especially for gold smugglers.</p>
<p>A public service message to prosperous BP readers (redundant, yes we know) who are also potential gold smugglers. Please think twice before landing up with <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Flyer-lands-in-Mumbai-with-9kg-gold-in-belt/articleshow/33624646.cms">9Kg gold concealed in your belt </a>or even (especially) <a href="http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=228289">5 Kg gold hidden in your undies.</a> It will embarrass your friends and family to the extreme (not that you really care). Please use your ingenuity if you must (drink it up).&nbsp;</p>
<p><b>And yes, never ever involve minors. Why should they spend the rest of their life in pison because of your (vile) greed??</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-26511425"><b>All in all one has to hand it to the Indians for their gold fetish- 700 kg smuggled in every day. Sheesh!!! </b></a><br />
<i>&#8230;.</i><br />
<i><b>After<br />
arresting a flight stewardess in the gold smuggling case for the first<br />
time in the history of AP Customs, the air intelligence unit has<br />
gathered vital details about the gangs operating from the city. Customs<br />
sleuths have found out that smugglers are using mobile-based social<br />
networking tool like &#8216;WhatsApp&#8217; to exchange gold.</b></i></p>
<p>&#8230;<br />
<i><b></b></i><br />
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<i>&nbsp;&nbsp;On Wednesday,<br />
 customs sleuths nabbed Sadaf Khan, a flight stewardess of Emirates<br />
airlines who arrived at the RGI Airport from Dubai with 13 kg gold<br />
concealed in her baggage. During interrogation, Sadaf informed the<br />
customs officials that the contraband was given to her by gold smuggler<br />
Shujat Mohammed Ali in Dubai.</p>
<p> Sadaf also told customs sleuths<br />
that Shujat had travelled with her in the Emirates flight from Dubai to<br />
Hyderabad. After this confession, customs officials made Sadaf call<br />
Shujat saying she was held up at the airport due to a technical problem<br />
and asking him to come and collect the gold.</p>
<p> However, Shujat<br />
grew suspicious and did not turn up at the airport. Later, customs<br />
sleuths found that he boarded a flight back to Dubai on Wednesday night.<br />
 After coordinating with Dubai customs authorities, state officials got<br />
Shujat deported to Hyderabad on Thursday.</p>
<p> During interrogation,<br />
 Shujat spilled the beans and confessed to customs officials about the<br />
gold smuggling racket. A resident of Old City, Shujat had gone to Dubai a<br />
 decade ago and has been involved in the cell phone trade there.<br />
However, according to the officials, the cell phone business in Dubai<br />
was only a front and that Shujat has been actively involved in gold<br />
smuggling for the past several years during which time he became a<br />
frequent traveler between Dubai and Hyderabad.</p>
<p> <b>In the wee<br />
hours of Wednesday, Sadaf and Shujat boarded the same Emirates flight.<br />
Their photos were &#8216;WhatsApped&#8217; to the receivers in Hyderabad by<br />
Dubai-based kingpins. Shujat told customs officials that they would<br />
never know the exact receivers in advance but that the receivers would<br />
identify them through the photos sent after which they would receive the<br />
 gold outside the airport.</b></p>
<p> While Sadaf claimed that she was<br />
involved in smuggling for the first time, customs officials suspect that<br />
 she carried out gold smuggling at least two times before. For<br />
transferring the gold, Sadaf was paid Rs 1 lakh per kilogram. Both<br />
Shujat and Sadaf were produced before the court and remanded in judicial<br />
 custody. Customs officials are planning to file a petition before the<br />
court seeking Shujat&#8217;s custody for further interrogation.</i></p>
<p>.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>regards</p></div>
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