DRI seizes worldwide cigarettes worth Rs 24 crore in Mumbai; 5 arrested
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MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai, has seized 1.2 crore sticks of worldwide origin cigarettes with an estimated market price of Rs 24 crore and arrested 5 people along with an importer for allegedly attempting to smuggle them, the DRI acknowledged on Sunday.
These cigarettes are banned for import into India on account of their non-compliance with Indian necessities, the DRI acknowledged in a launch.
Based on explicit intelligence, the contraband was seized from a container that was imagined to be trans-shipped to Arshiya Free Trade Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) for extra clearance, it acknowledged.
The DRI officers maintained a discrete vigil on the container’s movement.
It was found that after the container left the Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai, instead of reaching its trip spot, the similar was diverted to a personal godown whereas it was en path to Arshiya FTWZ.
The DRI officers then intercepted the container on the godown, the discharge acknowledged.
The whole 40-feet container was found to be stuffed with foreign-origin cigarettes which are banned for import into India on account of their non-compliance with Indian necessities, it acknowledged.
The syndicate had consider to smuggle the cigarettes by eradicating them from the container and altering the similar with objects declared in import paperwork with the intention to hoodwink customs authorities, the discharge acknowledged.
The godown was already stocked with the declared objects which had been imagined to be stuffed inside the container after eradicating the cigarettes sooner than the container was taken into Arshiya FTZ.
A whole of 1.07 crore sticks of foreign-origin cigarettes of varied producers had been recovered from the container, the DRI acknowledged.
In a swift follow-up operation, one different stash of 13 lakh cigarettes of worldwide origin which had been smuggled earlier by the similar syndicate was seized from one different godown, the discharge added.
MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai, has seized 1.2 crore sticks of worldwide origin cigarettes with an estimated market price of Rs 24 crore and arrested 5 people along with an importer for allegedly attempting to smuggle them, the DRI acknowledged on Sunday.
These cigarettes are banned for import into India on account of their non-compliance with Indian necessities, the DRI acknowledged in a launch.
Based on explicit intelligence, the contraband was seized from a container that was imagined to be trans-shipped to Arshiya Free Trade Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) for extra clearance, it acknowledged.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The DRI officers maintained a discrete vigil on the container’s movement.
It was found that after the container left the Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai, instead of reaching its trip spot, the similar was diverted to a personal godown whereas it was en path to Arshiya FTWZ.
The DRI officers then intercepted the container on the godown, the discharge acknowledged.
The whole 40-feet container was found to be stuffed with foreign-origin cigarettes which are banned for import into India on account of their non-compliance with Indian necessities, it acknowledged.
The syndicate had consider to smuggle the cigarettes by eradicating them from the container and altering the similar with objects declared in import paperwork with the intention to hoodwink customs authorities, the discharge acknowledged.
The godown was already stocked with the declared objects which had been imagined to be stuffed inside the container after eradicating the cigarettes sooner than the container was taken into Arshiya FTZ.
A whole of 1.07 crore sticks of foreign-origin cigarettes of varied producers had been recovered from the container, the DRI acknowledged.
In a swift follow-up operation, one different stash of 13 lakh cigarettes of worldwide origin which had been smuggled earlier by the similar syndicate was seized from one different godown, the discharge added.
