NEW DELHI, April 22 (UPI) -- Surgeons in New Delhi, India, operating on a man who claimed he accidentally swallowed a plastic bottle cap, found 12 gold bars in his stomach.
The unidentified man, 63, apparently smuggled and then swallowed the gold bars, each weighing 33 grams (1.16 ounces), to evade India’s import duty of 10 percent. At the current price, he swallowed $17,831 in gold to escape a duty of $1,783.