The Latest Breaking News from Customs

Mumbai Customs seize diamonds in noodle packets and gold in body parts worth ₹6.46 crore, passengers arrested

The Kapitan Andreevo border post, one of the busiest in Europe, is more than 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the nearest sea, but Bulgarian customs officer Georgi Gospodinov is on the lookout for dinghies.

The exercise being conducted by Central Excise and Customs officers will continue until the day of polling.

Both cruise lines are trying to make what some consider the worst part of cruising easier for passengers.

Customs seize 26,000 counterfeit cigarette sticks with a value of ₹4.42 from a passenger who arrived from Bahrain.

Officers of the Customs Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) recovered gold in paste form from a men’s restroom at the Tiruchi International Airport on Thursday. About 1.5 kg of gold was extracted from the paste. 

Mastermids are rarely caught

101 seized antiquities, including a 206-year-old telescope, handed over to ASI by customs department in New Delhi.

Rare 206-year-old British East India Company tracker telescope seized by Guwahati Customs handed over to Archaeological Survey of India.

Customs seize 6.3 kg gold worth ₹3.87 crore smuggled by passengers at Calicut Airport, using innovative concealment methods.

With the price of arecanut beginning to fall, Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd. (CAMPCO), Mangaluru, on Friday, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to ensure that when illegally imported arecanut seized by the government is auctioned the floor price is maintained.