Gold-stuffed chicken smuggler nabbed in South Africa

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AFP

Published
Nov 19, 2009

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 19, 2009 (AFP) - A worker at a South African jewellery retailer was arrested this week for trying to smuggle gold from his workplace by stuffing it into a cooked chicken, local media reported on Thursday 19 November.

Photo: AFP/File/Roslan Rahman

The worker was nabbed with the chicken after a metal detector went off as he went through a security point at the diamond retailer's central office situated in Johannesburg's leafy northern suburbs, said Beeld newspaper.

He has appeared in court on charges of attempted theft and possession of allegedly stolen goods.

The amount of gold that was inside the chicken is unknown.

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