Mumbai: An airline crew member was arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) along with a jeweller from Dadar for smuggling 1,373 grams of gold worth Rs 1.41 crore from the USA.Acting on specific intelligence, the officials of the DRI Mumbai unit intercepted Girish Pimple after he arrived from New York at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai on Thursday.His personal and baggage search did not yield any results; however, the officials found him hiding a packet near the side of a sofa placed near the baggage services area. Upon opening the packet, the officials found six pieces of yellow metal weighing 1,373 grams. Testing by an expert confirmed that the yellow metal was a gold bar valued at Rs 1.41 crore.Girish was placed under arrest and interrogated. He revealed that the contraband belonged to jeweller Rakesh Rathod, a resident of Dadar, who paid him 15,000 USD to buy gold from the US and promised Rs 2 lakh upon successful delivery of the gold to him. The agency stated that Rathod was previously arrested in 2020 in a similar gold smuggling case, suggesting this is his modus operandi. The agency also suspects that Girish regularly smuggled gold from abroad while on duty.