Gold smuggling: Customs seeks 10-day custody of Rabins Hameed

By Express News Service
KOCHI: The customs probing the gold smuggling case has sought the custody of Rabins Hameed -—who was deported from the UAE — for 10 days.The customs has moved a petition on this regard on the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (Economic Offence) courtroom. Rabins was the one who allegedly used to ship gold from the UAE and gather cash for it via reverse hawala channel.

He was deported from the UAE following the request of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the alleged terror funding angle within the gold smuggling case. Later, the NIA recorded his arrest.Recently, the customs recorded his assertion beneath Section 108 of the Customs Act and registered his arrest on the jail.

Following a petition, the courtroom has requested to provide Rabins earlier than it subsequent week. Meanwhile, the customs will quickly serve a discover on Joint Protocol Officer Shine A Haq. There are experiences that he shall be requested to look for interrogation in reference to the US greenback smuggling incident, which is linked to the gold smuggling case.