Chennai: He made multiple flight trips, used fake Aadhaar IDs, and risked gold worth 1 crore by leaving it unattended in a flight for two days. However, the smuggler from Chennai was outsmarted by customs sleuths at the city airport. They arrested him and seized a little more than 2 kg of 24-carat gold.Sleuths secured the flyer on June 14 at the domestic terminal when he arrived from Kolkata. As much as 1.13 kg of gold in paste form was seized from him. However, investigation revealed that he originally smuggled the gold from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai and attempted to bring it to Chennai via a domestic route to avoid suspicion.Customs sources said the smuggler carried gold in paste form from Abu Dhabi on June 12 and stuck the gold under the seat he travelled in. He exited the Mumbai airport without the gold and flew to Chennai. While tracking the flight using its unique number, he found out that the same aircraft was flying to Chennai from Kolkata on June 14. “So, he flew from Chennai to Kolkata and flew back on the Indigo flight in the same seat where he stuck the gold underneath. He retrieved the gold, which remained intact, and tried to exit Chennai airport,” said sources. During further investigation, customs sleuths discovered that he changed his identity by booking tickets in a different name using a fake Aadhaar card. Two fake Aadhaar cards and another 898 grams of gold in possession were also seized from him. In total, gold worth more than 2 crore was seized from him. The sleuths suspect that the arrested man might have smuggled gold in the same way in the past.In another incident, customs sleuths arrested a man who smuggled gold from Kuala Lumpur by replacing the regular screws in his trolley with ones made of gold. The passenger was secured on suspicion on June 15, and his check-in baggage was searched. Since the screws in his baggage seemed different, they were removed. The officials found that the screws were pure gold coated in grey to make them look like regular screws made of aluminium. As many as 99 screws weighing about 900 grams were seized from the flyer, and he was arrested.