INDIAN JEWELLER

DRI seizes gold worth Rs 10.56 crore in smuggling racket

Seven persons arrested after searches at domestic cargo terminal revealed gold bars weighing 32.28 kilograms

Post By : IJ News Service On 18 June 2019 11:29 AM

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) busts a smuggling racket amounting to Rs 10.56 crore after they recovered gold bars weighing 32.28 kilograms. The officials conducted searches at domestic cargo terminal and arrested seven people thereafter. It is believed that these bars were going to be supplied to three different jewellery shops in Mumbai.

“The gold bars have foreign markings. Gold is often smuggled through the Indo-Myanmar border, which is then brought to different ports following which it is smuggled to Mumbai through different airports,” an official said.

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