Mumbai, July 17 (IANS) In a significant breakthrough in a transnational smuggling racket, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) busted an international gold smuggling syndicate and arrested six people, including three Filipinos, officials said on Friday.The syndicate was allegedly being run with the connivance of private persons working at the airport premises, officials said.The six arrested accused have been identified as Mumbai residents Himanshu Upadhyay, Mohid Hasan Siddiqui and Fer…
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Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), in coordination with other agencies including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has busted an interstate wildlife trafficking syndicate across West Bengal and Maharashtra. Several wildlife species, listed under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, including 15 Slow Lorises, two Binturongs, 28 Star Tortoises, six Egyptian Vultures and two Shikra birds were recovered and rescued.The intelligence in the ca…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Six persons were arrested and 53 protected animals/birds rescued in a joint operation of the CBI and DRI, Mumbai, that exposed a wildlife trafficking racket, an official said on Thursday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and DRI, Mumbai, with support from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Mumbai/Kolkata, recovered 5 Slow Loris, 2 Binturong, 28 Star Tortoises, 6 Egyptian Vultures and 2 Shikra birds, said the statement.These animals and birds are listed in…
Guwahati, July 6 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has unearthed an alleged Rs 1,500 crore money laundering network linked to the smuggling of foreign-origin betel nut (areca nut) from Myanmar into India, with searches conducted across four states leading to the seizure of Rs 1.30 crore in cash and the freezing of 33 bank accounts, officials said on Monday. The searches were carried out on July 3 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at 20 locations spread across Assam, Mi…
Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) In a major operation against narcotics trafficking, the DRI seized 2.128 kg of cocaine, valued at Rs 10.65 crore in the illicit market, from female passenger arriving from Freetown via Nairobi at Mumbai airport, an official said on Monday. Acting on specific intelligence, officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai Zonal Unit, intercepted the female passenger on her arrival on July 5 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), the off…
New Delhi/Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) In a crackdown against narcotics supply networks, the DRI seized 1.11 lakh of Codeine-based cough syrup bottles and arrest of one person in two separate operations conducted in Tripura and West Bengal, an official said on Sunday.The officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) intercepted a consignment being transported in the parcel van of a train bound for Agartala on July 2 and seized it under the provisions of the NDPS Act, 1985, the official said in…
Agartala, July 3 (IANS) Tripura Police are firmly committed to eliminating the drug menace and making the state drug-free, senior officials said on Friday, after the recovery of a huge consignment of banned cough syrups worth over Rs 2.36 crore from the Deoghar Express at Agartala Railway Station after the train arrived from Bihar. Inspector General of Police (Intelligence and Security) Krishnendu Chakraborty, Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Manchak Ipper, along with other senior pol…
Agartala, July 2 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on Thursday seized a huge consignment of banned cough syrup worth over Rs 6.54 crore from a goods train at the Agartala Railway Station after it arrived from Bihar, officials said. The seizure of 55,626 bottles (100 ml each) of Eskuf Cough Syrup and Fairdyl Cough Syrup, both of which are often abused as narcotic substances, is the second-largest recovery of such an illegal consignment from a goods train in Tripura af…
Surat, June 26 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Friday seized 2 kg of cocaine in Surat and arrested one person involved in its illicit trafficking under the relevant provisions of the NDPS Act, 1985, an official said. Besides this seizure, the DRI carried out a series of operations at various airports, railway stations, courier terminals, and highways in Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Patna, Cochin, and Ahmedabad, and has cumulatively seized approximately 26 kg of cocaine since la…
Mumbai, June 26 (IANS) In a major crackdown against smuggling of foreign-origin gold, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested nine members of a syndicate, including a woman posted at the Mumbai airport, and seized a huge quantity of precious metal, an official said on Friday. While dismantling the highly organised gold smuggling syndicate operating through Mumbai airport, the DRI detected and busted a gold melting facility that was being used for melting foreign-origin smuggled go…