The Latest Breaking News from Customs

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.

The Customs Air Intelligence Unit at the Cochin international airport thwarted an attempt to smuggle in over 2 kg of gold estimated to have a market value of around ₹1.38 crore.

Customs officials seized 1997.96 grams of smuggled gold (12 bars and 5 coins) worth Rs 1.28 crore from one person at Guwahati Railway Station. Read further on Dynamite News:

A 43-year-old tech consultant from Whitefield become the latest victim of the courier scam and lost ₹18.3 lakh to cyberfraudsters who, posing as Customs officials, accessed his bank account to check “money laundering transactions”, and emptied it out on January 17.

Officials of Mumbai Customs said they have seized 24 KT gold dust and 24 KT jewellery valued at Rs 43 lakh from an Indian national travelling from Dubai. Read further on Dynamite News:

Customs officers and scientists are working together to combat the highly lucrative illicit trade in wildlife meat that is helping to push some species to extinction

The Guwahati Customs Department apprehended three accused and seized 103 gold biscuits weighing 2.60 kg at the Indo-Bhutan border near Darranga LCS, Assam. Read further on Dynamite News:

Narcotics Control Bureau seized around 300 LSD stamps, which were allegedly smuggled in as a parcel from abroad through a post office in Kochi