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Passengers caught smuggling gold, foreign currency at RGIA

Customs officials at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi Int'l Airport seized 3.7kg of smuggled gold & foreign currency worth ₹2.19cr & ₹16.46 lakh from 6 passengers. Gold was concealed in trousers & undergarments, while $20,000 was seized from a passenger bound for Bahrain. Passengers detained & booked under Customs Act.

The Hindu

Irish Authorities Seize €157 Million Cocaine Haul In Record-Breaking Operation

Joint military effort leads to largest drug seizure in Irish history, disrupting transnational smuggling network.

Zenger

NIA arrests absconder in politically sensational UAE Consulate gold smuggling case that rocked LDF govt. in Kerala

NIA arrests absconder in Kerala gold smuggling case; Ratheesh, a close associate of another suspect, transported smuggled gold from Thiruvananthapuram. Union government imposed high import tax, creating opportunity for smugglers to wring profits. Network used ingenious methods of concealment, aided by airline and Customs officials. ED probed money-laundering angle, NIA…

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Customs officials catch two passengers smuggling 2.8 kg of gold paste

The Customs officials at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru, on Saturday caught two passengers and recovered 2.8 kilos of gold in the form of paste, which they had concealed under their belts

The Hindu

In search of a partner to defraud

Matrimonial process has changed: digital sites, anonymity, fraudsters, financial losses, trauma, police highlight alarming trend, victims remain silent, honey trap, sweet talk, ₹8 lakh, blackmail, police nabbed woman, ₹4.5 lakh, emotional blackmail, register complaint online, matrimony.com advises caution, digital fraud challenge.

The Hindu

Gold worth ₹90 lakh seized at Kochi airport

Customs officials at Cochin Airport seize 1.8 kg of smuggled gold worth ₹90 lakh in 3 separate interceptions. Passengers from Jeddah & Abu Dhabi concealed gold in capsule & wire cutter handles respectively.

The Hindu

3.6 kg of smuggled gold seized at Calicut airport

Customs officials seized 3.608 kg gold compound and ₹20.9 lakh foreign currency from four passengers arriving at Calicut Int'l Airport. Gold capsules found hidden in bodies of passengers. Tip-offs led to seizure.

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Custom officials bust international wildlife trade racket at KIA, recover 234 reptiles and a dead baby kangaroo

Customs officials at the Kempegowda International Airport busted an international wildlife smuggling racket and arrested a man carrying reptiles

The Hindu

780 Intel CPUs Seized In $137,000 Smuggling Operation Bust

Chinese customs found 780 Intel processors hidden inside a bus engine with an estimated worth of over $137,000.

Tom’s Hardware

SC recalls its verdict upholding no indirect taxes can be levied from duty free shops at airports

The Supreme Court Friday recalled its April 10 verdict by which it had held that duty free shops at arrival and departure terminals at international airports are outside the purview of the Customs law and they cannot be saddled with indirect taxes like service tax.

The Hindu

The evolution of the late-‘60s Gibson Les Paul Custom – a near “exact duplicate of the original” that has become a holy grail for collectors

The late ‘60s was an era of great change for popular music and the guitars that would make it – and it was a time that found Gibson tinkering with a now-classic recipe and striking gold

Guitar World

Beypore port to get EDI service soon for international cargo movement

Beypore Port to soon offer Customs' EDI system for quick cargo clearance. Rs.15 lakh sanctioned for setting up EDI office. 24x7 clearance service to facilitate online documentation, reduce physical interface between customs, traders & agencies. Security upgrades, X-ray scanning, metal detectors, barbed wire fence & radar surveillance for ISPS certification.…

The Hindu

Customs seize 8 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 4.86 crore at Hyderabad airport, arrest four persons

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). Read further on Dynamite News:

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Customs seizes gold worth Rs 48 lakh at Kochi airport

The Customs department seized 1.005 kg of gold worth Rs 48 lakhs at Cochin International Airport on Sunday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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'Biggest ever seizure': Customs recovers foreign currency worth Rs 10 cr at Delhi airport

In what is claimed to be a "biggest-ever seizure", Customs department officials on Friday recovered foreign currency worth over Rs 10 crores from three Tajikistan nationals at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport. Read further on Dynamite News:

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NIA attaches two properties of ‘notorious’ drug trafficker

NIA attaches two properties of notorious drug trafficker in connection with 103 kg heroin seizure. Razi Haider Zaidi's residential plot in Muzaffarnagar and two-storey building in Delhi's Jamia Nagar.

Tom’s Hardware

Smuggler Caught With 420 M.2 SSDs Strapped to His Stomach

Chinese publication HKEPC reported that Chinese authorities caught a smuggler trying to sneak almost $32,000 worth of SSD through customs.

Dynamite News

Mumbai Airport Customs seizes narcotics worth Rs 12.98 crore

Mumbai Airport Customs on Saturday seized narcotics worth Rs 12.98 crore weighing about 1.3 kilograms from a foreign national. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Customs official remanded in ED custody in disproportionate assets case

A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Wednesday remanded Additional Commissioner of Customs, IRS (Customs & Central Excise: 2008), Sachin Sawant in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) till July 5.

The Hindu

Customs officials seize 405 kgs of ganja worth ₹81 lakh

Officials of the Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate, Vijayawada, have seized about 405 kgs of ganja, worth about ₹81 lakh. They arrested six smugglers and seized a car and a mini truck from their possession, on Sunday.

The Hindu

Customs unit makes extraordinary gold haul in six months at Calicut airport

160 kg of gold worth ₹90 crore seized in the first half of this year in the biggest haul in the past half a decade

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Watch Tom Morello and Slash battle for six-string supremacy as they perform Interstate 80 live for the first time

Morello welcomed the Guns N' Roses rock icon onstage at Graspop, and pitched his Shining Path Telecaster against Slash's custom-ordered Les Paul Custom

Al Jazeera

Nigeria’s Tinubu removes security chiefs in major reshuffle

Nigeria’s president has named new commanders of the defence forces, army, navy and air force, according to a statement.

Dynamite News

Hyderabad: Customs seize gold worth Rs 7.77 lakhs mixed in brown powder

Customs Air Intelligence unit of Hyderabad has intercepted one male passenger coming from Dubai at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) and seized gold worth Rs 7,77,621 mixed in a brown powder. Read further on Dynamite News.

The Hindu

Two customs officers arrested for aiding gold smuggling racket

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) detained two Customs officials for their alleged involvement in gold smuggling through the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Thursday.

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