The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai Customs on Sunday seized unclaimed gold worth over Rs one crore from one of the toilets in an aircraft at the international airport.

The AIU, on basis of information given by the airline’s security staff, seized eight gold bars of 1 kilogram each, totally weighing 8 kilograms valued Rs 1, 82,23,920. The gold bars were recovered from the rear toilet of the aircraft. The gold was in a flight was scheduled to go to Chennai in the morning.