CBI facilitates return of gold smuggling case accused from Saudi Arabia via Interpol channels

CBI facilitates return of gold smuggling case accused from Saudi Arabia via Interpol channels

A view of CBI headquarters in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: V. Sudershan The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has coordinated the return of a gold smuggling case accused from Saudi Arabia via Interpol channels. The accused has been identified as Shokat Ali and he was wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). On September … Read more

CBIC issues revised guidelines for reporting arrest, smuggling incidents

CBIC issues revised guidelines for reporting arrest, smuggling incidents

The CBIC said the incident report should describe the modus operandi, including flight/ voyage/cruise number and the customs declaration document name. The Central Board Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has revised guidelines for reporting of arrests, smuggling and commercial frauds by customs officers, as it looks to enhance risk-based targeting to nullify fraud attempts by … Read more

Kerala gold smuggling: Karnataka HC quashes FIR of Swapna Suresh on threat to life

Kerala gold smuggling: Karnataka HC quashes FIR of Swapna Suresh on threat to life

Kerala gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on July 11, 2020. | Photo Credit: File photo The High Court of Karnataka has directed the magistrate court to pass a fresh order on a request by the Bengaluru police to investigate the complaint of threat to … Read more

Punjab Police rolls out Drone Emergency Response System to prevent smuggling of drugs, arms

Punjab Police rolls out Drone Emergency Response System to prevent smuggling of drugs, arms

In a joint operation, BSF troops recovered a Pakistani drone that violated Indian airspace near Bhaini Rajputana village in Amritsar on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI The Punjab Police has rolled out a Drone Emergency Response System (DERS) in the border district of Pathankot to foil attempts to smuggle drugs and weapons from across the … Read more

Cattle smuggling case | Delhi court sends TMC’s Anubrata Mondal to ED custody till March 10

Cattle smuggling case | Delhi court sends TMC’s Anubrata Mondal to ED custody till March 10

Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mondal jailed in the cattle-smuggling case being bought to ESI hospital for a checkup prior to being produced before Enforcement Directorate (ED), in Kolkata on March 7, 2023 | Photo Credit: ANI A Delhi court on Wednesday sent TMC leader Anubrata Mondal to ED custody till March 10 in an … Read more

HC rejects TMC leader Anubrata Mondal‘s bail plea in cattle smuggling case

HC rejects TMC leader Anubrata Mondal‘s bail plea in cattle smuggling case

TMC leader Anubrata Mondal being produced before the Dubrajpur court, in Birbhum. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Calcutta High Court on January 4 rejected senior Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal‘s bail plea in an alleged cattle smuggling case Mondal’s counsel Kapil Sibal had claimed that he has been in custody for more than four … Read more

Data | Gold to dried seahorses, heroin to whale vomit: Volume and variety of contrabands seized in India

Data | Gold to dried seahorses, heroin to whale vomit: Volume and variety of contrabands seized in India

Rescued from smuggling: Thane Forest Department and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai unit in a joint operation seized 523 Indian Star Tortoises from a lady passenger at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Railway station. The Indian star tortoises are trafficked and smuggled as a part of the exotic pet trade and are highly-priced, both in local … Read more

Mexico Major Source of Fentanyl Entering U.S., Report Says

Feb. 8, 2022 Mexico has replaced China as the “dominant source” of fentanyl and synthetic opioids entering the United States, a new government report says. From 2014 until 2019, most pure fentanyl that U.S. authorities seized came from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), said the report from the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking. … Read more

NIA finds links between Dawood Ibrahim and Kerala gold smuggling case

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NIA on Wednesday made references to wanted don Dawood Ibrahim while opposing the bail plea of an accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told the court that one of the accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case, Ramees, may have been harboured by members of the D-Company in Africa. … Read more