The man had arrived on an AirAsia flight.
Customs assistant commissioner RPS Rajwar told The Times of India that the man had hidden the capsule-shaped gold in the fibre cap of screw drivers and in his rectum.
“We found 33 pieces of gold bars in the screw drivers and one in his rectum. The gold bars weighed 661.53 grams,” he was quoted as saying. The screw drivers were made specially to conceal the gold bars.
When the man went through metal detectors, customs officials were alerted to the presence of gold on his body. They frisked him and found a piece in his rectum.
The Times of India reported that it was the first time the man had come to Malaysia and that he was not a “regular smuggler”, just a carrier.
“Interrogation revealed that he didn’t know the traders who wanted to send the gold consignment. Somebody gave him the tool box at the Kuala Lumpur airport.”
The customs official said the man had somehow escaped suspicion at klia2.