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After winning gold in chess olympiad, Indian team asked to pay customs duty
short by Krishna Veera Vanamali / on Saturday, 5 December, 2020
Srinath Narayanan, Vice Captain of the Indian chess team that won gold at FIDE Online Chess Olympiad, revealed he paid ₹6,300 in customs duty to receive the medals. Srinath said he was asked for the medals' chemical composition. "(Medals) reached from Russia to India in three days, but took over a week to reach from Bangalore to Chennai," he tweeted.