New Delhi: Five persons, including three employees of private firms involved in maintenance work, were on Saturday arrested by Customs officials at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in New Delhi for allegedly smuggling memory cards worth over Rs one crore in two separate cases. Acting on an intelligence input, Air Customs officials arrested Ravi Kumar, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, with 32,030 memory cards of 2GB and 8GB with...
06:14 PM, May 19, 2012
Seoul: South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said on Monday. The capsules were made in north-eastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said. Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or...
09:43 AM, May 08, 2012
San Francisco/Hong Kong: Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a line of about 100 people waiting for the launch of the new iPad in a chilly rain outside an Apple store on the outskirts of San Francisco. When the doors opened, he was among the first to buy his quota of two iPads - the maximum Apple Inc allows per person. Then, sporting a bright red...
07:15 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Mumbai: In a twisted irony, the Maharashtra state's stringent de-addiction policy sprang brazenly back in its face when 14 Navi Mumbai policemen were caught smuggling 500 bottles of alcohol from Goa. The cops, including an assistant inspector and two assistant sub-inspectors, have been placed under suspension pending further inquiry. The incident happened on Wednesday night when the police team, on deputation with the Reserve Bank of India, were returning from...
03:10 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Mumbai: You never know what you might find inside the garbage cans at Mumbai airport. Now before you start planning to get your hands dirty, let's clarify here that the matter pertains to the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs busting a smuggling racket involving some employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). The smuggler would drop their consignment inside a designated garbage box placed near the international terminal...
10:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: In nationwide raids, NIA has arrested 14 people and smashed an international racket which involved in the smuggling and distribution of fake Indian currency notes being supplied by Pakistani agents through the porous Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal borders. According to a NIA spokesperson, there was information that few individuals belonging to Malda of West Bengal were engaged in organised smuggling and circulation of high quality and high value fakes...
09:09 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: A court in China on Wednesday sentenced five Surat based diamond traders to imprisonment of between three to five years and acquitted 16 others of charges of smuggling. The diamond traders, mostly Gujaratis, were arrested by Shenzhen customs officials for allegedly smuggling diamonds from Hong Kong to China on January 8, 2010. Shenzhen is a major city in China's Guangdong province close to Hong Kong. Apart from the...
05:03 PM, Dec 07, 2011
KOCHI: In a major development in the red sandalwood seizure from ICTT, Vallarpadam, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has unearthed Naxalite links behind the smuggling. The sandalwood is being smuggled to China, the DRI report said. The report, submitted before the Additional Sessions Court (Economic Offences), Ernakulam, said the sandalwood seized from ICTT, Vallarpadam, was procured with the assistance of Naxalites from Andhra Pradesh. Further, it was found that sandalwood...
08:59 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Dharmapuri: A special court will pronounce on Thursday the much-awaited judgement in the 1992 Vachathi case relating to alleged brutal assault of tribal people and rape of several women by forest, police and revenue officials during a search for smuggled sandalwood. The court was slated to pronounce the judgement on September 26 in the case investigated by the CBI but adjourned it following the absence of three of the 215...
08:02 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Hong Kong: In a crowded multi-storeyed marketplace in downtown Shenzhen, a store owner haggles with a cigarette-smoking customer over the price for a bulk sale. They are not bargaining over fake watches or counterfeit leather bags, but genuine Apple iPads and iPhones - freshly smuggled from Hong Kong, a free port with zero duties for many electronics imports. "This is real stuff that just arrived. We just got these off...
06:51 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: A Jet Airways airhostess has run into trouble with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) after she requested a person flying on a Singapore Delhi flight to sneak in four bottles of whiskey through Customs for her. The person she approached turned out to be DGCA's deputy director D Sharan. The incident occurred last month. The DGCA official immediately took action, writing a strongly-worded note to the...
11:45 AM, Jul 09, 2011
Thimpu: A Buddhist monk could face five years in prison after becoming the first casualty of a stringent anti-smoking law in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which vows to become the first smoke-free nation. The monk has been charged with consuming and smuggling contraband tobacco under a law that came into force this month, the newspaper Kuensel reported Friday, having been caught in possession of 72 packets of chewing...
12:47 PM, Jan 29, 2011
New Delhi: India's largest private airline Jet Airways is under scanner again in the UK. Four Jet Airways crew members have been detained by UK customs for smuggling cigarettes. The incident happened last week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that crew members were carrying cigarettes that are banned in UK for making quick money. CNN-IBN learns that senior officials of Jet Airways were warned earlier also by UK customs as this...
01:30 PM, Dec 27, 2010
London: A British Airways' cabin crew member has received a 120-hour community punishment order after using his position to illegally import tobacco into the UK through Heathrow Airport. The potential revenue loss on the smuggled tobacco is estimated at around 18,000 pounds. Christakis Lambrou, a British national, was stopped by UK Border Agency officers on August 15 2009, as he waited to board a flight to Geneva. Officers examined Lambrou's...
01:11 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Valsad: Ten men from Gujarat working in a UAE-based marine service company, who went missing, have been traced to jails in Iran. They have been convicted for smuggling fuel. Their families allege their pleas to the government has gone unheeded. One of the them is Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, whose family hasn't heard from him for almost eight months now. Bhupendra belongs to a middle-class family from Valsad in Gujarat and...
11:15 AM, Dec 23, 2010
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