Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) foiled a drug smuggling operation and arrested two persons, including a female Ugandan national at Mumbai airport, on Friday and seized around 1496 grammes of cocaine worth Rs 15 crore, an official said.
The court on Thursday sentenced Navdeep Singh under various sections of PMLA. It also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him, failing which Singh will have to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for three months.
"AirCustoms@IGIA have booked 3 separate cases of smuggling after 6522 gms of gold concealed by 5 pax in their clothes & rectum were recovered and seized. Value of seized gold is Rs. 3.43 Cr Further investigations are on," the Delhi Customs (Airport and General) posted on X.
The official added that the accused was wanted in multiple cases of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)Act, and his two accomplices have already been arrested by the SSOC Amritsar after recovering 14kg of heroin from their possession.
The residents say contractors chop down trees in Upper Kohistan’s forests before “smuggling” their wood to Gilgit-Baltistan and other areas through the Karakoram Highway in large quantities.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a most wanted accused in the case relating to the seizure of 18.56 kg of gold bars at the Jaipur International Airport.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in close coordination with the Interpol channels in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh facilitated the return of a Red Notice subject, Mohabbat Ali, an official statement said.
Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested four more Chinese nationals in connection to the gold smuggling attempt from the Tribhuvan International Airport on July 18 this year.
A police team along with the Detective Department on Thursday arrested six people and seized about 110 gm of gold and Rs 13,90,400 in cash in West Bengal's Hooghly district, officials said on Saturday.
The sleuths of Cochin Customs on Saturday arrested a passenger for smuggling about 1,060 gm of gold worth Rs 50 lakh by concealing it in his rectum in Kerala's Kochi district, said the officials.
The Hyderabad Customs in four separate cases foiled a smuggling racket, arrested four passengers and seized eight kilograms of smuggled gold worth Rs 4.86 crore at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) on Saturday, officials said.