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Indian cigarette smuggling syndicate busted
A syndicate involved with the smuggling of foreign-made cigarettes into India by using fake documents in the names of fictitious companies and forging the signatures of customs officials was busted by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials early this week.
Six people have been detained in connection with case in which 850,000 foreign-made cigarettes worth INR5.1 million (US$78,581) were seized at the air cargo complex at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad, The Hindu reported.
DRI additional director general, Hyderabad zonal unit, M K Singh, said members of the gang had already managed to smuggle out similar cigarettes worth INR9 million from the air cargo complex earlier.
Information received by DRI officials confirmed that the gang smuggled the cigarettes from Dubai claiming that they were engineering goods, paper machine spares and computer parts.
Six people have been detained in connection with case in which 850,000 foreign-made cigarettes worth INR5.1 million (US$78,581) were seized at the air cargo complex at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad, The Hindu reported.
DRI additional director general, Hyderabad zonal unit, M K Singh, said members of the gang had already managed to smuggle out similar cigarettes worth INR9 million from the air cargo complex earlier.
Information received by DRI officials confirmed that the gang smuggled the cigarettes from Dubai claiming that they were engineering goods, paper machine spares and computer parts.
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