I've seen a lot of such news, many drug or gold smugglers often have ways to try to bypass the police.

I think he does it for profit
We do not need to smuggle with bitcoins because bitcoin can be sent to any country in the world, and most importantly, the price of bitcoin in the world is nearly equal.

While it shows how Bitcoin is different from Gold, I do not think we should promote bitcoin as a means of easily evading taxes. This is one of the ideas used to push the narrative that Bitcoin facilitates illegal activities and is used to launder money, leading to it getting seized in certain circumstances.
Also, while you may not have to smuggle Bitcoin in the manner of this case, airport authorities can also still check bitcoin wallets (software or hardware) or private keys in your possession at that time and these could be seized depending on the legal stance of Bitcoin in that country.

To avoid excessive regulations placed on Bitcoin or in threatening situations where your funds are at risk, you can check out this thread on plausible deniability - [Wiki] An Informal Introduction to Plausible Deniability.

Aren't there any metal detectors on airports?How did he bypass the metal detectors(or maybe he didn't)?
Can't metal detectors detect gold?Is this guy really dumb,or yes he is so dumb?So many questions...
Maybe he isn't tech savvy and he can't use a computer,so that's why he isn't using Bitcoin instead of gold.
Anyway,I wouldn't stick anything valuable in my ass,even if the tax rate is 50%,not 18%.

Paying 18% in taxes can seem unfair to many Indians who have apparently slogged it out in the gulf countries to save enough and return to their home states. The cases generally involve expats returning from gulf after working in menial jobs there.

Unfortunately, things are not as simple as that. With all the scanning and imagery available at airports these days, it is surprising that these people still dare to risk losing all of their money (against paying 18% tax) as well as risking their bodies to such extents.  For those who know Indian society, Kerala is the state which had its name maligned after several Muslim youths joined ISIS. There is a dominant Muslim population with links in the Gulf. The Gulf states have sponsored covert actions in India because of its history with Pakistan. So the investigation agencies are fully involved in several such cases as this is suspected to be terror financing.

This is the kind of stuff that also makes it difficult for the general public to accept bitcoin because it can be quickly linked to terror financing.

I think we shouldn't be sticking anything up our asses

Well yes, technically we don't do that in Bitcoin since we can't do that in Bitcoin in digital form. I think the closest thing that could happen like that is when scammers or money launderers are using physical papers which have bitcoin wallet written in it then selling that paper to a client instead of using exchange.

Pretty bold of him to do that though.

Bitcoin is traceble too. Not the best solutions to avoid taxes

2 pounds of gold, judging by the picture with most of them being a bit flat would mean he has something like 2x2x13 cm(yeah metric system)  in his ass, do you think you could walk normally with something like that? The volume might not be a problem but gold is insanely dense, I'm almost sure he will have to see a doctor pretty soon, there is no way in hell he could have kept that in there to much without damage to his sphincter.

It's one thing to carry something less dense that is distributed on a larger surface and a totally different thing to carry around gold. According to the news I've read customs police say carrying around one pound or even 1, 1/2 of cocaine in small bags is doable even to "newbies".


Metal detectors detect gold even easier than other metals, they can even detect your fillings, that's they are set to ignore small amounts by the surface, fillings, small badges, pins or zippers, in his case they were flat and pretty long, the scanner (if activated) would have gone nuts the moment he would have passed through it.



Why? Money!!! Money is the reason for which we do almost everything.
As for your solution, after he gets his money in his bank...he will get taxed,which this guy tried to avoid.

And the craziest thing is that how he can manage to put it in his ass with that big chunks of gold? How desperate is that just to make money and even risk his life? He's no way he can make it in this modern situation and new technology.

I'm not sure if this is the first time he did this, but probably he'll do this before 50 years ago when there is no metal detector, no scanner, just passing through the lines.